In the largest study of its kind, US researchers looked at the DNA of 150,000 participants, 20,000 of whom had diagnosed autism.

Researchers found that African Americans with a genetic variant in the gene called SLC24A5 were more likely to have vitamin D levels up to three times lower than what is considered normal.

The eight so-called super-variants were discovered scattered across seven chromosomes by researchers at Harvard University.

Some viruses may steal host genes to form beneficial hybrid proteins  The Science Board

Well, if the Denisovans and Neanderthals were so smart, then why are they dead? Probably because scurrilous H. sapiens ripped off their advanced technology to use it against ’em. Noted Homo sapien Joel Hruska takes a moment to illustrate our species’s crowning achievement this side of the smartphone. Much like this 50,000-Year Old, Tar-Smeared Tool […]

The British research, presented at the world’s biggest cancer conference in Chicago, pave the way for the first personalised – or ‘precision’ – medicine for prostate cancer.

Autism’s causes are not fully understood, but we know they are both genetic and environmental. Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed a test that detects both.

I saw 3 small green ufo' when i was 9. they were stationary and made a quiet electrical sound. went back the next day to see if there was any markings on the ground but found none. roughly a year or so later got sick with very strange type of diabetes. i am the only […]