Tea (Camellia sinensis) is one of the world's most widely consumed beverages, and the size of young buds directly influences ...

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is projected to become the second-leading cause of cancer death in the United States by 2030 ...

New research shows RNA is preserved for longer than scientists had realized. This is the oldest RNA ever profiled.

New research shows that depression beginning before age 25 has a much stronger hereditary component than depression that ...

Studies of germline genetic testing programs provide a snapshot of challenges at academic and community practices at the NSGC annual meeting.

Neanderthals may not have truly gone extinct, according to a new mathematical model that suggests they underwent genetic ...

Advances in sequencing ancient DNA have revealed that over millenia, people have moved into new regions in successive waves, ...

Scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have revealed a previously overlooked layer of genetic variation that ...

Until now, researchers assumed that schizophrenia, anxiety disorders or depression arise from an interplay of many different ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and ...