Switzerland creates secure test site for GM crops

Jop de Vrieze | Science News |
The following is an edited excerpt. The Swiss government will create a permanently protected area on federal land for experiments ...

Depression gene search disappoints

Laura Sanders | Science News |
A massive effort to uncover genes involved in depression has largely failed. By combing through the DNA of 34,549 volunteers, ...

Human genetic diversity exploded in recent millennia

Tina Hesman Saey | Science News |
Most of the genetic quirks people carry today popped up within the last 5,000 years or so, researchers report online ...

Rare genetic variants may not as influential in common disease as once thought

Tina Hesman Saey | Science News |
Rare tweaks in single letters of DNA are not as powerful a force in health and in common diseases as ...