Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children's ...

New research reveals how octopuses and other cephalopods developed some of the most complex nervous systems in the animal ...

A meta-analysis of randomized trials combined with Mendelian randomization finds that physical activity improves key aging ...

Smoking is one of the biggest contributors to lung cancer, but anywhere from 10-20% of cases in the U.S. each year are diagnosed in people who never smoked. In a new study published in Science, ...

For most of his remarkable life, Jonathan the tortoise has lived on the island of St. Helena, a British Overseas Territory in ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children's Hospital and collaborating ...

Across mammals, larger species typically have longer lifespans, ranging from only a couple of years for mice to almost 200 ...

Gay, lesbian, and bisexual people report worse mental health on average than heterosexual people. But when they’re compared ...

Whole-genome sequencing of Nigerian schistosomes shows that the ITS and cox1 markers long used to identify hybridization and ...

Germline genetic screening can identify whether a patient with cancer has inherited genetic alterations in a gene or genes ...

She had just diagnosed our 11-year-old daughter, Maya, with Nicolaides-Baraitser syndrome, a genetic condition so rare there ...

They thought it might explain why their health had diverged. Instead, it stirred up feelings that weren’t so easily ...