In recent years, scientists have identified hundreds of different genes associated with autism, a burst of discovery that has ...

Scientists at Keele University have created the first detailed map of the genetic "switches" that control reproduction in disease-carrying insects such as Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito species most ...

Two studies led by the Chahrour Lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center shed new light on genes associated with autism spectrum ...

Across the rainforests of Central and South America, dozens of butterfly species wear nearly identical wing patterns. Some ...

Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths ...

Roche’s Foundation Medicine has linked with Fulgent Genetics to offer a new diagnostic test that identifies a person’s ...

Butterflies and a moth species reused the same two genes, ivory and optix, to create similar warning colors over millions of ...

Legumes like soybeans, alfalfa, peas, beans, peanuts and many more have a remarkable ability: They can partner with soil ...

Study finds that natural selection favored those with high number of starch-digesting genes following potato domestication in ...

Your genes tell a unique story From the curl of your hair to how your body responds to certain foods, your genes carry the blueprint that makes you, you. Tiny variations in DNA sequences—sometimes ...