A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens ...

A study of victims of a 12th century massacre reveals that Ashkenazi Jews developed a unique genetic variation centuries earlier than realized. (JTA) — For nearly a millennium, 17 Jewish ...

They stem from the notion that the genetic variation created in sexual reproduction is worth the cost. And at least in some environments, that variation must give a competitive edge over asexual ...

Two-thirds of animal and plant populations are declining in genetic diversity, which makes it harder to adapt to ...

One manufacturer of DNA microarrays, Affymetrix, now offers a chip containing approximately 1.8 million different genetic markers. When a fragment of DNA from a test sample hybridizes to a probe ...

Kidney disease, leading to kidney failure, afflicts disproportionately more black people than white people. Thus, there is a huge burden of kidney health care costs among black people all over the ...

The extinction of the Neanderthals is one of the most intriguing mysteries in paleoanthropology, with researchers speculating ...

Dec. 22, 2021 — A genetic variation among some Greenlanders makes sugar healthy -- significantly more than for most people. According to a new study, gut bacteria and a unique diet that has ...

Scientists employ deep learning to analyze and compare gene regulation across various cell types in human and chicken brains.

limiting researchers' ability to understand the role of genetic variation. "The challenge in studying age-related eye diseases is that aging is heterogeneous," said Gareth Howell, professor and ...

“The development of the inner ear structures is known to be under very tight genetic control, since they are fully formed at the time of birth,” said Quam. “This makes variation in the ...