Whether people live long lives depends more on their lifestyle and environment than on their genes, new research shows. (Getty Images) ...

A new resource from the Gene Ontology Consortium, a comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes, has just been completed and released on a new website. For ...

Having two copies of the MTHFR gene mutation may raise your risk for certain health conditions, though more research is needed. You may have the mutation and not find out unless you undergo ...

(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) The Pittsburgh Penguins pay tribute to Penguins Hockey Hall of Fame announcer Mike Lange before an NHL hockey game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Washington Capitals ...

In the late 2010s eight macaque monkeys were born at a laboratory in Shanghai. At first they seemed much like the other infants in the colony, but differences soon became obvious. They were much ...

Or humans. Manipulating genes to correct diseases or improve crops are not new ideas. But (especially in medicine) earlier technologies struggled due to being unsafe or prohibitively cumbersome.

Introduction: The three-amino-acid-loop-extension (TALE) of the homeobox superfamily genes plays important roles in plant growth, development, and responses to environmental stress. Although TALE ...

"While genes play a key role in brain conditions and some cancers, our findings highlight opportunities to mitigate the risks of chronic diseases of the lung, heart and liver which are leading ...

A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in humans may have helped us communicate in a novel way. Speech allowed us to ...

A new study suggests that the NOVA1 gene may have been a key player in the evolution of human language. By Carl Zimmer Scientists have long struggled to understand how human language evolved.