Scientists created a definitive E3 ligase atlas, resolving inconsistencies and enabling better disease research and drug design.

Scientists discovered that making a very small change to female mice's DNA caused them to develop male reproductive organs.

Researchers at Bar-Ilan University have discovered that changing just one letter in DNA can completely alter sex development ...

Scientists have found new genetic causes for diabetes in babies—in a part of the genome that has historically been overlooked ...

Not all parts of our genetic code are equal, even when they appear to say the same thing. Scientists have discovered that ...

Some shark species might belong to their own distinct lineage, which is separate from all other sharks, rays and skates, ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed “the genetics” of assailants in a string of recent attacks across the country. He made the comments after attacks at a university in Virginia and a synagogue ...

For more than a century, Mendelian genetics has shaped how we think about inheritance: one gene, one trait. It is a model that still echoes through textbooks—and one that is increasingly reaching its ...

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

Three decades ago a famous study of Danish twins found that our genes “only moderately” influence how long we’re likely to live. Longevity, the authors estimated, was about 25 percent heritable, ...