The Food and Drug Administration plans to drop its longtime standard of requiring two rigorous studies for new drug approvals.

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 ...

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

Researchers led by Min Zhang and Dabao Zhang of the University of California, Irvine's Joe C. Wen School of Population & ...

Creatures that can change from one form to another are a staple of science fiction: Think werewolves and Transformers. Nature, too, has its shapeshifters, such as dimorphic fungi. While scientists ...

The fishers slipped into the Cabinet Mountains on New Year's Day 1989. Moving quietly and stealthily, their elongated bodies ...

The gene most strongly correlated with Alzheimer's disease also boosts seizure activity by decreasing levels of ion pumps and energy-producing enzymes in neurons, a new study by researchers at the ...

Fragments of DNA from long-extinct human relatives still circulate in modern genomes, and in some cases they do more than ...

We’d just arrived at the first-ever Field & Stream Lodge in Bozeman, Montana, when my girlfriend, Bela, said, “Let’s go find somewhere to swim.” Bela’s always eager to spend time on the water, and I ...