What if cattle were selected not only for their productivity, but also for their resistance to disease? A study conducted by ...

A recent study published in Science challenged this trend, revising the estimate upward to about 50 percent by accounting for ...

CHICAGO ? One reason some people live into their 90s and beyond may be a genetic variation that makes the cholesterol particles in their blood really big.?Supersize it? is not usually associated with ...

How much do your genes determine how long you'll live? It's a question that fascinates us, and one that's been debated for decades.

In the ongoing effort to determine just how much of who we are is preordained by our genetic code, heritability, a statistical measurement of how much variation in a trait can be attributed to genetic ...

Structural variants (SVs) are alterations in the DNA sequence that involve large-scale changes, typically longer than 50 base pairs. Advances in long-read sequencing have significantly increased ...

The human genome is organised in 46 chromosomes, where all but the x and y chromosomes in men are present in two copies. This means that a person with a faulty gene on one chromosome most often has a ...

Birds have a dazzling display of patterns, from muted colors to vivid and striking hues. For a long time, scientists believed that the evolution of these traits was a slow process that took place when ...