A large study analyzing over 1.1 million pregnancies found no strong evidence that maternal health conditions during ...

Chromosomal inversions are an important class of genetic variation that link multiple alleles together into a single inherited block that can have important effects on fitness. To study the role of ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 31, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 23andMe Holding Co. (Nasdaq: ME), a leading human genetics company with a mission to help ...

The rise of pastoralist peoples in the Eurasian steppes and their westward spread some 5,000 years ago may have been fuelled ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spasmodic dysphonia, a voice disorder caused by a malfunction in the brain. Here’s what to know.

But a new study hints that maybe we aren’t so special. A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert ...

They analyzed all copy number variations in the 22q11.2 chromosome while participants completed a questionnaire about their cardiovascular, endocrine, urogenital, musculoskeletal, developmental ...

A study of occupational status published in Nature Human Behavior identifies 106 genetic variants, the importance of the interplay of genetics and family environment, childhood educational and ...

(‘Dragon Man’ skull may be new species, shaking up human family tree.) Over the past few years, Beijing has invested heavily in genetics and paleoproteomics labs—and in a new generation of ...

On January 14, hippies and other counterculture participants swarmed to the polo grounds in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in a gathering called the Human Be-In. Timothy Leary advised ...

It’s a very rare event, but we know that reassortment has resulted in the influenza viruses that have caused the last three human pandemics. Meghan Davis: We are if you're a house cat. When this virus ...

Now, one theorist warns that the human civilization of 8.2 billion people is at a critical junction: teetering between what he forecasts will be authoritarian collapse and superabundance.