A new study by UCLA Health published in Cell presents a major advancement in the future of personalized medicine by pinpointing new connections between people's genes, disease risk and medicine ...

The next time you’re walking in a busy place, take a moment to appreciate the vast diversity of faces around you. Nose shape.

Inherited variations in antibody genes can affect how we respond to infections and vaccines, show two new studies from ...

Habitat fragmentation can decrease biodiversity by up to 75% within an ecosystem. As species are forced to live in a fraction ...

If the internet is this obsessed with eye color, how rare are green eyes in humans? Green sits in the middle zone of pigment ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...

The koala now ranks among a few species observed escaping a genetic bottleneck, in this case caused by overhunting that ...

A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have brought us to a major turning point in our evolutionary ...

Animals come in an extraordinary range of body shapes. A starfish looks nothing like an earthworm, a mouse, or a human. Yet ...