Plants are fast-tracking their own evolution by "plugging in" genetic code stolen from their neighbors, according to new research that reveals the secret to their own successful genetic engineering.

Genetic data show that 14 psychiatric diagnoses cluster into five families of shared risk, explaining why conditions like ...

We spend an average of £200 a year on supplements, but which ones will actually improve your health and fitness? Harry Bullmore talks to a clinical dietitian and a nutritionist to find out ...

Psychological development is like a river flowing along its course. From birth, our psychological maturation runs along ...

"Monogenic" diseases, triggered by mutations in just one gene, may actually be more complex than scientists thought.

But the study, published Thursday in the journal Science, shows “that whenever Neanderthals and modern humans have mated, ...

A study shows that interbreeding between the two species occurred primarily in one direction, and the origin of this bias is ...

For decades, scientists believed a fertilized egg’s DNA began as a shapeless mass, only organizing itself once the embryo switched on its genes. But new research reveals that the genome is already ...

The study offers one of the most detailed maps yet of how human antibody responses vary from person to person.

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic analysis. Scientists know that Neanderthals and humans mated because there is ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.