To Shakespeare's Hamlet, we humans are "the paragon of animals." But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution's greatest achievement.

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution’s greatest achievement.

In the study, published Thursday in the American Journal of Human Genetics, researchers analyzed the genomes of more than 200,000 participants in the All of Us cohort, which was established by the ...

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution’s greatest achievement. For example, humans have ...

DOI: 10.1038/s44400-025-00013-3 People with better cognitive health are at lower risk of later Alzheimer's disease, but genetics can interfere with this, according to a new study.

The experiments show that changes in iron levels can lead male mammalian embryos to develop female sex characteristics, regardless of their genetics.

“These are the first published LCA results for beef-on-dairy genetics,” said Dr Matthew Cleveland, global sustainability director at ABS. “They prove that genetic improvement is not just a ...

Population genetics is the study of the genetic composition of populations, including distributions and changes in genotype and phenotype frequency in response to the processes of natural ...

Genetic disease is believed to be linked to 41 percent of U.S. infants' deaths, while more than 2 million children have a genetic condition.

In true feline form, cats took their time deciding whether to jump into humans’ laps. In a new comprehensive study of the spread of domesticated cats, DNA analysis suggests that cats lived for ...

Appendix cancer is a rare but increasingly recognized malignancy, often discovered incidentally during surgery for presumed appendicitis. Advances in imaging, molecular profiling, and ...