Learn more about the volcanic island of Nishinoshima and how its frequent eruptions are helping scientists understand how ...

A genetic variation among some Greenlanders makes sugar healthy – significantly more than for most people. According to a new study by University of Copenhagen researchers and their colleagues, gut ...

Yes, cancer is fundamentally a genetic disease, but not only a hereditary one. Most cancers arise from mutations acquired ...

Several genetic variants associated with social behavior in honey bees are located within genes that have previously been ...

Scientists studied water fleas to reveal how natural selection subtly operates in stable environments, offering insights into ...

The present theory offers a unified solution to three closely related evolutionary problems. (1) Why does an evolving population explore only a small fraction of the accessible pathways in genotype ...

Researchers still do not have a comprehensive picture of the factors that influence gene expression in human cancers. Understanding gene expression in cancer is important because it can reveal how the ...