"In fact, scientists used to believe that the Y chromosome lacked genetic variety, which we believed meant that it didn't ...

A 30-year-long study of a small population of marine snail shows how evolution can adapt to environmental changes quite rapidly. This study revealed how a specific ecotype of the snail changed its ...

Direct-to-consumer (“DTC”) genetic testing companies are faced with more scrutiny than ever over their privacy practices, security practices, and ...

“We know from similar previous experiments that genetic variation occurs or can occur ... and the hope is that we’ll have a ...

Renowned agricultural scientist K.C. Bansal elected as TWAS Fellow for advancing science in developing countries.

Along Colombia's Pacific coast, a small shellfish called piangua has been a crucial part of local communities for generations. This humble mollusk is ...

Researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) are helping uncover new ...

Figure 2. Genetic diversity translates into variability in bacterial burden and immune cells in the lung during Mtb infection. Cellular percentages were enumerated in the lungs using flow cytometry at ...

Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) are a cutting-edge tool in genetics, combining information from genetic markers across the genome to estimate a person's risk of developing certain diseases, such as ...

Muvalaplin significantly lowered lipoprotein(a) levels, reducing the risk of cardiovascular events in high-risk adults.

Scientists have long pondered how these cells were able to avoid the constant fusion that would’ve ultimately destroyed their genetic variability, and now a team from the University of Chicago thinks ...

In On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin highlighted European oaks as an example of species variation. The advent of DNA ...