New research clarifies why people with a rare genetic disease called Fanconi anemia are at higher risk of an aggressive head and neck cancer.

New research identifies more than 2,300 genes predicting alcohol and tobacco use after analyzing data from more than 3.4 million people.

A new study finds that humans' switching to agriculture was the catalyst that sparked the world's first domestication of cats.

A new study finds that humans' switching to agriculture was the catalyst that sparked the world's first domestication of cats.

A new study characterizes a range of molecular tools to rewrite large chunks of an organism's DNA, based on CRISPR-Cas systems associated with transposons.

Exposure to parental discord or divorce is associated with a child's genetic risk for alcohol problems as adults, a new study shows.

A new method using roundworms can help determine which genes are relevant to the aging process, researchers say.

Body weight comes down to more than just our genes, researchers have found. MicroRNA also plays a role in weight regulation.

Epigenetic changes linked to Parkinson's disease are different in men and women, according to a new postmortem analysis of brain neurons.

Researchers have shown that mice with gene variants previously linked to Alzheimer's disease were at greater risk of dying of COVID.