The practice of freediving is teaching physiologists how humans stretch their physical and mental limits, which in turn may improve treatments for lung and heart ailments.
In a study, people with gene variants in two genes lost slightly more weight on GLP-1 drugs, but threw up more on Zepbound.
Two new studies suggest that genetically stable dogs were living among humans in Europe by about 14,000 years ago.
A genetic mutation tied to keeping the brain healthy at high altitudes may point to a way to repair nerve damage, experiments in mice show.
Environmental cues can flip a molecular switch in the brain, turning males from caregivers to killers.
The Amazon molly reproduces without sex. A genomic copy-and-paste trick called gene conversion may explain how it avoids evolutionary meltdown.
As koalas in southern Australia have grown from a few hundred to almost half a million, the marsupials show signs of regaining lost genetic variation.
A DNA analysis suggests mosquitoes shifted from nonhuman primates to early humans nearly 2 million years ago.
A new study suggests that inherited traits explain a small but measurable share of why some people relocate far from where they were born.
The findings strengthen the case that regeneration is an old trait, offering insights into how complex tissues rebuild themselves.
