Some traits come only from your mother, from mitochondrial DNA to intelligence and inherited health risks. The post Traits ...

Genetics were thought to play only a secondary role in determining lifespan—turns out, it’s quite the opposite.

The Editors highlight three aspects of OMB’s recently proposed rule changes as particularly striking: that decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees, that funding could ...

Understanding the history of admixture events and population size changes leading to modern humans is central to human evolutionary genetics. Here we introduce a coalescence-based hidden Markov model, ...

Have you ever thought of having a baby that’s gonna be the exact version from your thoughts? The ocean blue eyes, the cute dimples or a head full of hair? It has become a reality now with designer ...

A revolution is quietly unfolding in the field of evolutionary biology, challenging entrenched paradigms and reshaping our understanding of how life evolves. The newly emerging Extended Evolutionary ...

The largest genetic analysis of psychiatric disorders to date shows that most relevant genetic variants are linked to multiple mental health conditions rather than just one. The study found that 14 ...

Few technologies have made as big a splash in recent years as CRISPR/Cas9, and rightfully so. CRISPR/Cas9, or clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and associated genes, is a ...

The first complete draft of the human genome was published back in 2003. Since then, researchers have worked both to improve the accuracy of human genetic data, and to expand its diversity, looking at ...

* Genetics & Genome Sciences participates in the Biomedical Sciences Training Program (BSTP), an umbrella program that serves, among other capacities, as a central recruiting and admissions portal for ...

This study abroad program is designed to explore the intersection of genetics, culture, ethics, and public policy in a global context. London and Scotland offer uniquely rich educational environments ...

Bliss (Race Decoded), a sociology professor at Rutgers University, delivers a searching examination of how questionable science has been used to justify racism throughout history. She explains that as ...