A new modeling technique aims to help scientists and policymakers detect declines in genetic diversity based on habitat loss.

Most animals can’t pass on mutations that arise spontaneously throughout their lives—but Elkhorn corals can.

Height and onset of menarche are among traits linked to previously unidentified genetic variants in noncoding regions of the human genome.

Off the western Australian coast, in Shark Bay, a field of seagrass big enough to cover Washington, DC, has flourished for more than four millennia, a new study finds.

Inbreeding depression won’t bring the 10 remaining vaquitas to extinction.

The University of Washington researcher leveraged data from the Human Genome Project to identify genes underlying various health conditions and advance precision medicine.

The discovery, made on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, constitutes an exceptionally high number of new mammals to be described in a single paper.

Tracking human cancers in mice shows some unexpected cell changes that could undermine translational research.  

A study probes how genetic duplications that can swell protein length influence human traits such as height and kidney function.

Over centuries of cultivating Saccharomyces cerevisiae to make dough, bakers have put selective pressure on the species, causing it to diverge into two distinct groups, according to the authors.

The analysis adds new details to the picture of migration and mixing in a diverse country.

An analysis of more than 400 human genomes from residents of 13 African countries presented at this week’s annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics greatly expands our species’ cataloged genetic diversity.

Researchers must ensure that the inequality seen in most of today’s genomic studies and databases is corrected.

A better understanding of the genetic diversity among humans could motivate an appreciation of both our similarities and our differences.

Meet some of the people featured in the September 2019 issue of The Scientist.

How we talk about the coming revolution in clinical care matters as much as the need to involve all types of people in the process.

Certain populations have been historically underrepresented in genome sequencing studies, but the NIH, private clinics, and 23andMe and other companies are trying to fix that.

Urban environments are driving genetic changes in resident species through multiple mechanisms, from establishing gene flow barriers to exerting novel selection pressures.