Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A gene is a basic unit of ...

When my middle school class read Tuck Everlasting, the novel about a girl who befriends a family who drank from a magical stream and gained eternal life, I was conflicted. The moral of the story was ...

A new study has found important clues about the roles age, sex, hormonal changes and genetics play in how certain biomarkers for dementia are expressed in the blood, according to a new study. "Blood ...

The sequencing of the human genome has changed how we do genetics. Instead of examining one gene at a time, we now look at the genetic variation across the entire genome. We can examine how ...

The researchers found the genetics of coffee consumption were associated with outcomes of obesity and substance use. They also found contradictory relationships between genes associated with coffee ...

What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes. A gene is a basic unit of heredity, the means by which traits get passed from one generation to the next, and genetics is the study ...