Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can have the same genetic cause, a discovery that won ...

DNA analysis of a Roman-era skeleton known as "Beachy Head Woman" suggests she was likely from Britain, revising earlier ...

Health data from 500,000 UK Biobank volunteers appeared for sale on Alibaba after three Chinese research institutions violated data-sharing contracts. The ICO is investigating.

This marsupial carnivore is endangered, mainly because it tries to eat toxic cane toads. Some scientists think they can stave ...

Even as you read this sentence, the brain cells you are using to process it might be mutating. What if these changes could be ...

A study by IRB Barcelona reveals that transfer RNA (tRNA) genes accumulate mutations at a frequency up to nine times higher ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

A newly proposed model suggests cancer cells may resist treatment not just through genetic mutations, but by dynamically ...

The future of medicine is being quietly built in an unassuming Perth lab by an impressive group that is flying under the ...

Tracking how blood cancers develop over time has uncovered important genetic differences between patients whose disease stays ...

Rosa Rademakers and Bryan Traynor received this year’s Breakthrough Prize for identifying the most common genetic cause of ...

Eye color comes down to a pigment called melanin. The more melanin your irises produce, the darker your eyes. Your genes are ...