A Florida state legislator sponsored the nation's first state-backed genetic screening program after his son died from a rare ...

When we think of giraffes, we instantly think of them being the typical combination of dark orange or brown patches ...

A new study says genetic testing can speed the return of the American chestnut tree that once dominated Eastern U.S. forests.

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

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...

Why do some people live to 100 while their sibling dies decades earlier? Is it luck, lifestyle, or something written into their DNA? Relative to many other species, humans are particularly long-lived, ...

Those trees are central to one of the efforts to restore the American chestnut. If enough of them have distinct means of ...

"By following universal paralogs," says Kaçar, "we can connect the earliest steps of life on Earth to the tools of modern ...

Scientists call this speck LUCA — the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Since the concept of LUCA first emerged, it has ...

An exploration of how lifestyle choices, nutrition, and science can help overcome genetic predispositions to obesity.

Cucumber is an economically important crop worldwide, ranking as the third most-produced vegetable after tomatoes and onions.