Science Controversies

A man who says he’s at least half Native Hawaiian but doesn't have the records to prove it is suing ...

Researchers led by Professor Bruce Fitt, now at the University of Hertfordshire, have used modern DNA techniques on late nineteenth-century ...

Several years ago researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) reported discovering a novel, evolutionary trait in a long-studied population of ...

Recently we learned that Europeans, especially North Europeans, are actually very North Eurasian genetically (see here). Then, last week, scientists ...

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men and early treatment is usually very successful. However, like ...

Scientists announced Sunday that they have finished mapping virtually all of the genetic mutations in breast cancer, an effort that ...

A Norwegian study of twins expands the role of genetics in the development of a personality disorder, yet cautions that ...

Every time a woman is tested for gene mutations linked to significantly higher rates of breast and ovarian cancer, her ...

The Khoe-San people of southern Africa have been recognised as one of the earliest-formed distinct human genetic groups for several ...

The first detailed maps of genetic activity in the human brain have been published online by scientists. This freely accessible ...

A genetic mutation that occurred thousands of years ago might be the answer to how early humans were able to ...

Much like the checkout clerk uses a machine that scans the barcodes on packages to identify what customers bought at ...

In findings that are fundamentally reshaping the scientific understanding of breast cancer, researchers have identified four genetically distinct types of ...

Federal appeals court judges aimed tough questions Wednesday at a state lawyer defending California's voter-approved requirement that police take DNA ...

A newly-discovered animal gene may explain how the common housecat comes to have a blotchy or stripey tabby fur pattern ...

The "medical" bit of medical marijuana may be legitimate after all: Turns out a component of cannabis fights cancer, according ...

A team of researchers at Michigan State University has documented the step-by-step process in which organisms evolve new functions. The ...

A comprehensive atlas of the adult human brain that reveals the activity of genes across the entire organ has been ...

Genetically modified corn could soon be used to mass-produce the enzymes used in rare-disease therapies, according to new research ...

Research indicates the out-of-Africa spread of humans was dictated by the appearance of favourable climatic windows. By integrating genetics with ...

Researchers have long known that individual diseases are associated with genes in specific locations of the genome. Genetics researchers at ...

Geneticists soon will be able to identify an unborn child’s risk of developing chronic diseases later in life and possibly ...

Producing better quality melons with guaranteed results before planting; this will be possible thanks to the "Melonomics" project, involving several ...

The key to cloning a woolly mammoth may be locked into the Siberian permafrost. At least, that’s what scientists in ...

The largest study of genetic variance across present-day populations in southern Africa suggests that there is no single place in ...

Sequencing the whole genome of a fetus could provide a medical early warning on a previously unknown scale - but ...

Research indicates the out-of-Africa spread of humans was dictated by the appearance of favourable climatic windows. By integrating genetics with ...