Genetic ancestry may play a key role in how acral melanoma, a rare and aggressive type of skin cancer, develops and behaves, ...

The North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust is among 50 trusts taking part in the genome sequencing.

A study offering newborn babies "cutting-edge genomic screening" with the hope of identifying rare but treatable illnesses could be "life-changing" for families, doctors have said. Gloucester Royal ...

In two new studies on 28,000 individuals, researchers are able to show that genetic variants in 11 regions of the human ...

A new study by researchers at King's College London has split schizophrenia risk into two genetically distinct pathways. One ...

23andMe Research Institute today announced the publication of a new study highlighting the positive health actions taken by people who learned of their risk through direct-to-consumer genetic testing.

In two new studies on 28,000 individuals, researchers can show that genetic variants in 11 regions of the human genome have a clear influence on which bacteria are in the gut and what they do there.

Researchers at McGill University and the United States Forest Service have found that plants living in areas where human ...

Cucumber is an economically important crop worldwide, ranking as the third most-produced vegetable after tomatoes and onions.

Domestic pigs bred with wild boar after the nuclear disaster offer lessons in wildlife genetics and invasive species management.

The genus Avena, encompassing both wild and cultivated oat species, has long been a focus of genomic and cytogenetic research aimed at deciphering complex evolutionary histories and optimising ...