A breeding update gets exciting as a three-year-old tiger reticulated python protects her first clutch of 26 fertile eggs.

A bad apple doesn't always ruin the bunch. In fact, it might make the bunch a little stronger. A new study published in ...

In one of the most ambitious epigenomic studies yet attempted in livestock, researchers have assembled a vast multi-omics ...

On the vast Eurasian steppe, a hardy perennial grass known as sheepgrass (Leymus chinensis) anchors entire ecosystems and ...

A child’s risk of developing anxiety and depression is influenced not only by the genes they inherit, but also by the genetic traits their parents possess. A large study published in Nature Mental ...

For patients with CFS such as Emma Slack, a mother-of-one from Newcastle, evidence of a distinct genetic cause also promises ...

A huge analysis probes the genetics of personality, finding that the trait is much less straightforward than physical attributes like eye color.

The study, published in Nature, examined 74 quantitative traits, including cholesterol, blood glucose, hemoglobin, heart rate ...

A new book follows a family with an inherited form of FTD, a type of early-onset dementia. The book explores how family ...

Protein–protein interaction (PPI) networks accurately map environmental perturbations to their molecular consequences in cells, yet the effects of natural genetic variation on PPIs remain poorly ...

Schizophrenia, height, cholesterol. Each has its own genetic signature. That signature is made up of genetic variants: small differences in the DNA sequence that make one person's genome differ from ...

New genome analysis suggests the Kent MenB strain picked up DNA from harmless throat bacteria, raising its virulence.