A study of more than 400,000 people found 1% had never had sex – which was linked to a range of genetic, environmental and ...

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

An. funestus is one of the most widespread mosquito species in Africa, with the females attracted to humans as a source of ...

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

The Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs, the most of any animal, and its DNA may reveal insights into evolution and ...

Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species ...

When speakers of different languages meet, their words, sounds and even grammatical structures mingle in surprising ways.

To find out more, we studied about 400,000 UK residents aged between 39 and 73, and a further 13,500 Australian residents ...

What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes.

Dr. Ambroise Wonkam discusses the role of genetic modifiers in sickle cell disease and their impact on patient care in ...

Scientists have discovered new genetic clues to work out how a type of mosquito is evolving over time to survive ...