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Unlike other populations living at high altitude, Andeans didn’t rely on hypoxia-related genes.

It will be more than a year before the agency institutes or rejects the controversial changes proposed by former EPA head Scott Pruitt.

Activity in the lateral prefrontal cortex was the best correlate of weight loss in a study of people on a restricted-calorie diet.

Researchers create permanent DNA records directly from transient RNA transcripts within bacterial cells.

Combining data from the genetic testing techniques can guide patient care, scientists say.

This year’s winners also include the developers of nusinersen, an oligonucleotide therapeutic for spinal muscular atrophy.

Dozens of cases of acute flaccid myelitis have occurred this year, and while it resembles polio, health officials have ruled out poliovirus.

Researchers parse genes linked with intellectual disability and autism from those tied to autism alone.

New findings cast doubt on previous claims that structures found preserved in rocks in Greenland are stromatolites, but the original authors say the discrepancy lies in different samples.

The study authors attribute the decreases to climate change.

Male rodents exposed to nicotine had changes in sperm genome methylation and produced pups and grandpups with abnormal behavior.

The average price of a pint could double by the end of this century because of declines in barley yields, a study predicts.