Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make ...

Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news Molecular evolution comes to town. PCR makes DNA sequencing far more viable. Computers are powerful ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

ASTANA – High school textbooks may frame evolution as a thing of the past, but it is very much alive, said Dr. Arkhat ...

Paleogeneticists have taken a sweeping look at 297 ancient genomes from Scandinavia and compared them with genetic data from 16,500 living Scandinavians to better understand the genetic history of the ...

Integrating mechanistic and evolutionary analysis of life history variation / Christian Braendle, Andreas Heyland, and Thomas Flatt -- Genomic insights into life history evolution / Derek A. Roff -- ...

In 1980, a landmark paper described restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), a method predateding high volume DNA sequencing, that could be used to identify disease-causing genes. Ray ...

Baseline AMD severity and fellow-eye status were highly predictive of progression to AAMD. Family history was also predictive, especially for participants with two or more affected family members. The ...