The result is that many modern breeds suffer from ailments that dog lovers never would have deliberately selected for.

Could a novel approach to genetic studies give us a clearer picture of how evolutionary adaptations occur? That's what the ...

Chromosomal inversions are an important class of genetic variation that link multiple alleles together into a single inherited block that can have important effects on fitness. To study the role of ...

This variation arises through genetic mutation and is important as it provides the diversity within and between populations required for natural selection. A comprehensive meta-analysis of global ...

More inflammation in the gut, smaller offspring “We looked at what effect a single genetic risk factor for Crohn's disease had on the microbiome of pregnant animals,” explains study leader ...

The time for speculating is over. We now know the roster of the debut Natural Selection Tour (NST) ski event. If you clicked on this article, you came for those names, so we’ll lead there. Keep ...

Their findings, published in Nature Aging, describe a never-before-seen link between the two most accepted explanations: random genetic mutations and predictable epigenetic modifications.

Even though a large proportion of cancer patients carry genetic mutations that make them more susceptible to cancer, only a small percentage of them — and their family members — undergo ...

Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and at least a few that may be good for you Amber Dance, Knowable ...

Genes play a role in our likelihood of developing depression, and one of the most extensive studies of its kind has now been able to link 293 previously unknown genetic variations to the devastating ...

For 30 years, researchers have known that Huntington's is caused by an inherited mutation in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene, but they didn't know how the mutation causes brain cell death. A study ...