A new study published in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science offers a nuanced look at how genetic risk for ...

A study in Germany found that individuals with higher polygenic risk scores for anhedonia showed specific patterns of brain ...

Plants can carry long-lasting genetic damage from past population crashes, leaving them more vulnerable to future environmental change.

A new study says genetic testing can speed the return of the American chestnut tree that once dominated Eastern U.S. forests.

Despite decades of research, scientists struggle to understand the mental health implications of DNA. Researchers were able ...

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

In two new studies on 28,000 individuals, researchers are able to 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 ...

A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when ...

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

Adult survivors of childhood cancers are at higher risk for another cancer—such as breast, colorectal, sarcomas and thyroid ...

A Florida state legislator sponsored the nation's first state-backed genetic screening program after his son died from a rare genetic disease.

INHERIT lets cattle producers select replacement females and evaluate sires based on genetic predictions for BRD health and ...