Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' season 2 returns as Jen Affleck addresses claims about her family's alleged connection to Ben Affleck ...

Modern HIV medicine is based on a common genetic mutation. Now, researchers have traced where and when the mutation arose -- and how it protected our ancestors from ancient diseases.

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But in today’s health care system, available tocolytics are used “off-label” because they were originally developed for ...

Parents' genes—even when not directly inherited by a child—may play a role in their educational and mental health outcomes, ...

New research challenges many widely held beliefs in psychology, revealing that genetics may play a greater role in shaping ...

The mitochondrial genome can help researchers map ancestry and better understand the inheritance of mitochondrial diseases.

Louisiana Creole expert Jari Honora shared his genealogical research on 69-year-old Chicago native Robert Prevost shortly ...

Children with gifted parents tend to do better in school even if they didn't inherit the intelligence genes, a study found, ...

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but usually over short distances across the DNA sequence, with the on/off switch ...

Comb jellies "could repurpose [their] genetic toolkit in different ways like a Swiss knife," said the researchers.