Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest ...

If you’re one of the folks who looks forward to pumpkins every fall, the long summer wait can be tough. For farmers, the ...

Trauma can influence the next generation through altered hormones, immune function or in utero conditions – all of which ...

Genetic variation also plays a major role. It doesn’t encode trauma itself, but it shapes traits such as sensitivity to ...

Cucumbers, a summer staple of salads and sandwiches, are a valuable commercial crop. They also have a less well-known role as ...

Byline: Kaitlyn Gomez Imagine if scientists could reach back through time and recover the genetic blueprints of species that vanished thousands of years ago, then use those ancient instructions to ...

The newly launched South African Blood Regulatory (SABR) dataset reveals how genetic variation influences blood traits and ...

Genetic disease is believed to be linked to 41 percent of U.S. infants' deaths, while more than 2 million children have a ...

Conley worries about all this, too, but can’t deny what science is teaching us: Our genetic code has a big impact on many ...

A new study has found that psychopaths show structural changes in particular areas of the brain that deal with things like ...

Looking at inbreeding in the population of Holstein cattle was the focus of a recent webinar by Iowa State University dairy extension and outreach. John Cole from the Council of Dairy Cattle Breeding ...

Genetic ancestry, then, can be an important factor in your overall health picture – what your “normal” is, which illnesses ...