Genetics

Trump’s anti-immigrant good-gene-bad-gene screeds are nothing but factless eugenics for a new era

Separating medical data from culturally distinct Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) groups can improve health outcomes

Fossil and gene discoveries paint an ever-more-intertwined history of humans combining with vanished species like Neandertals

You have around 35 trillion red blood cells moving around your body at all times. Typically they are rounded and flexible. What happens when they aren’t?

Understanding genetics, immunology and the microbiomes of people with inflammatory bowel disease could aid in finding the right treatments for the condition

For the first time, researchers have reconstructed the 3D structure of ancient genetic material, in this case from a 52,000-year-old mammoth

The land, water and air around us are chock-full of DNA from fungi that scientists can’t identify

A small South Pacific fern boasts more than 50 times as many base pairs as the human genome

Scientists have recently discovered thousands of active RNA molecules that can control the human body

Rather than relying on bacteria, whiteflies cut out the middleman and acquired their own genes to process nitrogen

Several marsupial species, including sugar gliders, independently evolved a way to make membranes that allow them to glide through the air

New research examines the molecular machinery behind a beetle’s strange biological cycle