As a group, carriers of recessive disorders are slightly less healthy and have a reduced chance of having offspring. This disadvantage is greatest for carriers of a recessive gene for intellectual ...

Populations live in rapidly changing environments—droughts come and go, food sources change, human activities reshape habitats. For scientists, this raises a fundamental puzzle: How do populations ...

Researchers have conducted what they say is the largest and most diverse study to date on how recessive genetic changes contribute to developmental disorders. The team, headed by researchers at the ...

Children all over the country grew up watching Bill Nye the Science Guy explain a variety of scientific terms to them. And ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the resubmitted Biologics License Application (BLA) for prademagene zamikeracel for the treatment of recessive dystrophic epidermolysis ...