Genetics

A child's genes, combined with their environment, will shape who they are. But parenting is part of that environment.

Nothing lasts forever, but some things, like bats, endure.

Why do we have seemingly extra amino acids in our genetic code? Quantum chemistry borrowed from space to find the answer.

More than 7,000 genomes were analyzed.

Biologists found that the axolotl has an exceptionally long genome, with 32 billion base pairs of DNA, 10 times the number a human has. It's the largest genome ever sequenced.

The test is 100 percent accurate, but larger studies will need to be done to confirm that statistic.

If the same rate of degeneration continues, the Y chromosome has just 4.6 million years left before it disappears completely.

Researchers accomplished this feat for the first time and may never be able to do it again.

Gene therapy is the future of medicine, and curing blindness may be the first stop.

Groundbreaking insights are shedding light on this frustrating disease.

Genetic factors in mice helped predict which humans respond well to the drugs.

Atheists are lousy with mutant genes.

"The one thing that we reliably know is that your family did not cause this."

Knowing the reason why may bring some comfort to those who suffer.

Scientists bred and analyzed 13 generations of wild fruit flies.

The work shows "how important serendipity is for evolution."

About one in every 5,000 boys born in the United States has this genetic disorder.

The next phase of clinical trials for this remarkable gene therapy may be coming to the U.S. soon.

Variations in genes only accounted for 12 percent of the variation in the way people behaved, but that's not nothing.

Spoiler alert: they haven't, not really.

Even the healthy Mediterranean diet doesn't work for everyone.

A more global view is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about pigmentation.

Personalized diets, even from birth, could be in our future.

"You can't call it a cure...but it's probably getting close."

This new vaccine was much, much more effective than the vaccines used in humans in 2010.

Everyone in Canada could get screened, for a price.

Sufferers of the crippling mental disorder may take solace in at least having some causative genes identified.

Stories say the people of Easter Island's destroyed the landscape before turning to cannibalism. The truth is far more sinister.

As they age, fathers pass on more genetic mutations to their offspring than mothers.

A recent study finds that hereditary bacteria play a small role in determining whether we develop cavities.