DNA is often called the blueprint of life, but what does that really mean? Elizabeth Worthey, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Genetics in the Heersink School of Medicine, explains everything ...

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Scientists analyzed data from more than one million users of 23andMe and found associations between certain genes and stuttering ...

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...

This came up in a front page discussion recently, and I promised I'd do a bit of a brain dump. The motivation: people often talk about whether we're regulating the risks posed by exposure to radiation ...

Scientists dug into paleofeces for a new study, learning some very intimate details about how long-ago people lived.

In 1969, when my mom was an infant, her mother, Amanda, disappeared one day and was never heard from again. “I spent my entire childhood wondering what happened to her,” my mom, Zoyda, explained to me ...

In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a ...