A rare Malayan tapir calf was born at Point Defiance Zoo over the weekend. This marks only the second time this has happened ...

A teenager was diagnosed with skin cancer and a brain tumour four times before she turned 18 after discovering she had a rare genetic disorder. Ruby-Jo Sneed discovered she had a rare genetic ...

Two-thirds of animal and plant populations are declining in genetic diversity, which makes it harder to adapt to ...

“While GWAS examines the entire genome for common genetic variants linked to a trait, often focusing on the non-coding regions, the EWAS focuses specifically on rare variants in the protein ...

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Scientists studying an aggressive cancer that affects thousands of dogs annually have uncovered a genetic signature that ...

Long before a species goes extinct, the population becomes smaller and more fragmented, shrinking the number of potential mates and therefore genetic mixing. This leaves a species more vulnerable ...

This leaves a species more vulnerable to future threats such as disease. “A surprising trend was that we saw genetic diversity declining even among” many species that aren’t considered at ...