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genetics

Tracing the roots of food preference to keep us healthy

Humans

Tracing the roots of food preference to keep us healthy

Geneticist Paolo Gasparini is exploring the ancient Silk Road to find out how important our genes are in shaping what we can taste and what we like

Opinion

How was Angelina Jolie's breast cancer risk calculated?

Health

How was Angelina Jolie's breast cancer risk calculated?

Opinion

Genes in the brain keep bad time when we are depressed

Health

Genes in the brain keep bad time when we are depressed

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Meditation boosts genes that promote good health

Health

Meditation boosts genes that promote good health

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Life

Lethal DNA tags could keep innocent people out of jail

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Life

Mild-mannered flies turn cannibal when short of food

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Life

Stone Age migration may have shaped today's Europeans

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Health

Radioactive bacteria nuke pancreatic cancer in mice

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Earth

Historic human remains yield epigenetic tags

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Cost of cuts: Austerity's toxic genetic legacy

Health

Cost of cuts: Austerity's toxic genetic legacy

Psychological stress brought on by the economic crisis may trigger genes that threaten the long-term health of future generations

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Health

The hidden costs of austerity

Opinion

Health

China bird flu may be two mutations from a pandemic

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Life

DNA transistors pave way for living computers

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Health

Storm erupts over publishing of HeLa genome

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