People who are genetically susceptible to severe mental illness but don’t develop the full conditions may instead have milder ...

Quick Take Preserving the northern white rhino now requires overcoming functional extinction, as there are only two females ...

DNA reveals that in prehistoric China, men remained in their community, while women joined new family lineages.

India’s health care system is undergoing a major shift as genomics and artificial intelligence enable predictive, preventive, ...

An international team of scientists has analyzed the ongoing colonization by two retroviruses of the germline of koalas and ...

Some 60 primate species, including baboons, chimpanzees and vervet monkeys, express homosexuality, according to a new study ...

Allergies and asthma affect an increasing number of children worldwide, but now an international research group led by DTU ...

Brazil’s oldest people may be revealing hidden biological secrets behind extreme human longevity. A Viewpoint published on January 6 in Genomic Psychiatry by Dr. Mayana Zatz and colleagues at the Huma ...

Men with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma are twice as likely as women to have stage III disease, with more kidney damage and ...

Health editor Hugh Pym revamped his diet after a test suggested his gut health appeared to look five years older than he was ...

CoV-2 variants now spread less efficiently in animals, lowering concerns that animal reservoirs could generate new variants ...

Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The ...