Few pests eat away at farm profitability as much as soybean cyst nematode (SCN). Causing at least $1.5 billion in yield losses annually, it's soybean's single biggest threat. Unfortunately, soybean's ...

A large-scale genomic study of koalas across eastern Australia has found that populations that went through severe 20th-century bottlenecks are already showing signs of genetic recovery, challenging ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is preparing to dedicate the receipt of new resource materials for patients with genetic disorders. The 2 p.m. Friday ceremony ...

Eastern Pennsylvania is home to beautiful farmlands and countryside, but it's also a gold mine of information for geneticists, who have studied the region's Amish culture for decades. Because of their ...

The often-mentioned fact that humans and chimpanzees are 99.9 percent identical in their DNA is hard to accept for some people, who can't comprehend how we could share so much of our basic genetic ...

A new synthesis finds that common epilepsies are driven by thousands of tiny-effect genetic variants, most still ...