A new genetic study suggests Adolf Hitler most likely had Kallmann syndrome, a rare hormonal disorder that disrupts normal ...

The Lost Girls of Telangana, lending her voice to a Telugu crime documentary that exposes disturbing, long-silenced stories ...

An international team of scientists says it may have recovered traces of DNA linked to Leonardo da Vinci from a ...

Some Y-chromosome DNA sequences from the “Holy Child” artwork and from a letter penned by one of Leonardo’s cousins appear to ...

When scientists sequenced the DNA of a woman who lived to 117, they were not just cataloging the quirks of an extraordinary life. They were probing a question that touches every family: why do some ...

An HIV diagnosis upended San Diego resident Jim Dunn’s life. But his willingness to participate in an end-of-life program is helping scientists to better understand the disease and hopefully find a ...

The world’s polar bear population is projected to decline by two-thirds by 2050. A new study from the University of East Anglia suggests that polar bears are undergoing rapid genetic changes, and ...

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The precise biological process behind the increased risk of melanoma previously remained unclear, and the study found the use of indoor tanning beds led to a nearly threefold increase in melanoma risk ...

Alcohol consumption leads to the formation of a toxic compound called acetaldehyde, which damages DNA. A research team from IOCB Prague has now described in detail how cells repair this damaged ...

A plague that swept through Eurasia for 2,000 years – millennia before the Black Death of the Middle Ages – has only ever been detected in human remains, until now. For decades, it has been unclear ...