Much of what scientists know about how genetic differences affect health comes from studying populations outside Africa. This ...

Newswise — The transmission of biological traits from one generation to the next is generally attributed to DNA. But could some changes be passed on without altering the DNA sequence? Scientists at ...

The remarkable intelligence of octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish may trace back to an ancient reshuffling of their DNA that ...

Scientists accidentally discovered a microscopic organism with a genetic code that breaks a rule researchers thought was ...