Geneticists have unearthed a major event in the ancient history of sturgeons and paddlefish that has significant implications for the way we understand evolution. They have pinpointed a previously ...

The chromosome 16p13.11 heterozygous deletion is associated with a diverse array of neuropsychiatric disorders including intellectual disabilities, autism, schizophrenia, epilepsy and ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising twist in how cells behave when division goes wrong. Sometimes a cell successfully copies its DNA but fails to split into two, leaving it with double the genetic ...

This is the sixth of eight posts on evolutionary research to celebrate Darwin's bicentennial. Physically, we are incredibly different from our ape cousins but genetically, it's a different story. We ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Chemists studying metabolism in living ...