From the ability to detect the smell of wet soil to the scent of ripe fruit, the human olfactory system has evolved over ...

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What is the human exposome? A massive study quantifying 115,000 associations shows that cumulative environmental exposures rival genetics in predicting disease.

The DNA blame game: are we fated to follow our genetic destiny? - Will Rogers-Coltman meets Kathryn Paige Harden, a behavioral geneticist asking difficult questions ...

For decades, scientists have been carefully unraveling the role of genes in disease by examining how small variations in a ...

Plants are often seen as passive organisms, rooted in one place and largely unable to react to the world around them. But a ...

A new study finds natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10,000 years, driven by farming, disease ...

Analysis of hundreds of environmental exposures and health outcomes quantifies influence of nongenetic factors ...

A fresh and important book reveals the messy reality of our ever-mutating cells – and why the quest to defeat ageing is ...

For decades, scientists have assumed canine heartworms spread globally alongside modern dog movement, but new genomic research co-authored by researchers from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary ...

More than 60 years after its discovery, scientists are still learning surprising ways DNA stores and translates instructions ...

Remarkably, 98 percent of our DNA does not code for genes. Once considered “junk DNA,” it is now well appreciated that these ...