The discovery of a finger bone in a cave in Siberia some 15 years ago kicked off a race to unravel the mysteries of an ...

Spatial patterns in genetic diversity are shaped by individuals dispersing from their parents and larger-scale population movements. It has long been appreciated that these patterns of movement shape ...

Females move to a new community when they reach sexual maturity, but as for whether they want to hear her ideas? That’s ...

Geneticists have studied the distribution of Y-chromosome haplogroups on the Faroe Islands, known to have been colonized by ...

Today, the results were published in the journal Nature. Reliable crop yields fueled the rise of human civilizations. As ...

PyGraphistry is a Python library to quickly load, shape, embed, and explore big graphs with the GPU-accelerated Graphistry visual graph analyzer ...

Most mutations are not bad for you, and some can even be beneficial. That's because genetic mutations create genetic diversity, which keeps populations healthy. Other mutations, called silent ...

Pioneering research has unlocked new understanding of the genetic intricacies within the octoploid strawberry, focusing on ...

If your relatives have had heart issues, you may be more at risk due to shared genes. Even when environmental factors play a role, getting tested for any inherited heart conditions is important.

which evolved through duplication events that provide plants with additional copies of genetic information. Using a common model plant called Arabidopsis thaliana, or thale cress, Zhong and her ...

They say the concerns which led to genetic testing being abandoned in 1999 remain, “and are amplified by the vastly increased number of younger athletes” it is proposed would be tested under ...