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A blood test clarifies which gene variants truly cause congenital heart defects, linking diagnosis to more precise ...

Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have traced a rare premature aging condition in a young Malaysian man to a ...

The Neanderthal population shrank during a cold spell around 75,000 years ago, and the loss of genetic diversity may have ...

Revealing the limitations of cloning, researchers who repeatedly cloned mice for two decades have discovered that such serial ...

A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that while the COVID-19 virus ...

Researchers analyze 2.2 million genomes to show that addiction risk is primarily driven by broad genes affecting brain wiring ...

For thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on drinking water that would make most people ...

A major scientific breakthrough could change the future of bass fishing in Kentucky, as researchers with the Kentucky ...

When a person with cancer finds out they carry an inherited genetic variant that puts them at higher risk of cancer, the ...

A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases—the molecular "letters" of life—have been detected in samples from the ...

The asteroid Ryugu, millions of miles away from Earth, might not look that exciting. But on it, we now know, lie some of the ...