Seed plants are essential as a source of food, fuel, medicine, and more. Now, a multidisciplinary team of researchers has ...

If your parents' bone repair genes never turn on, you still inherit them, and you heal. But if they don't teach you to ski, ...

A study of ~850,000 adults across six ancestries identified 13 genes linked to obesity, including five novel genes not previously associated. These rare, loss-of-function variants affect brain and fat ...

It is difficult to interpret the Trump administration’s wholesale attacks on governmental programs as anything other than ...

New whole-genome sequencing data reveals how strongly DNA shapes everyday traits, closing the long-standing gap in ...

A tiny freshwater snail from New Zealand is giving scientists a glimpse into evolution in motion. University of Iowa ...

Genome sequencing has been used to determine how much genes influence human characteristics including height and weight, and ...

Residents of modern megacities are accustomed to the uninterrupted water supply to their apartments. In such comfortable conditions, sometimes a false feeling is created that this important source of ...

As language models learn to interpret words in a sentence, protein language models learn how amino acids work together within a protein.

Genetics research and cognitive theory together are revealing autism’s biological depth and cognitive richness, shaping a ...