Researchers have discovered how mosquitoes pick up on acidic volatiles found in human sweat

The lack of diversity in studies has serious consequences for science and medicine

With the latest gene-editing techniques, it could be possible, although challenging, to make a tomato produce capsaicinoids

The first sequenced Himalayan marmot genome may better explain how the marmots live in such extremes

Present-day humans who carry particular Neandertal DNA fragments have heads that are slightly less rounded

The findings reinforce the important role of the circadian clock in governing metabolism

The study of communities migrating from Southeast Asia could provide insight into some of the metabolic health issues affecting immigrants to the country

Researchers were able to produce healthy mice with two mothers that went on to have normal offspring of their own

Twenty years ago, researchers made the accidental discovery that BPA had leached out of plastic cages used to house female mice in the lab

A study identifies an unusually lengthy array of tandem repeats found only within the human version of a gene governing calcium transport in the brain

FOXP2, a gene implicated in affecting speech and language, is held up as a textbook example of positive selection on a human-specific trait

In 1991, German tourists discovered in the Eastern Italian Alps a human body that was later determined to be the oldest naturally preserved ice mummy, known as Otzi, or the Iceman

Psychedelic drugs may have mind-altering powers in the physical sense, too

The genetic changes behind the expansion that made us human have been elusive, until now

The study found that even a short bout of moderate exercise increased levels of a lipid in male, female, young, old, sedentary, and active human subjects.