Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Scientists at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of Toronto have revealed how a tiny ...

Genetics is the branch of science concerned with genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms. It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring, including ...

Nature, first published on 4 November 1869, is ranked the world s most cited interdisciplinary scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports. Most scientific ...

Dr. Conley is the author of “The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what ...

Affecting 1 in 500 people, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the walls of the left ventricle, the heart's ...

“Nature” means innate biological factors (namely genetics), while “nurture” can refer to upbringing or life experience more generally. Traditionally, “nature vs. nurture” has been ...

In an Advanced Online Publication in Nature Genetics, Julian Knight and colleagues at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK, describe an approach, dubbed HaploCHIP, which uses ...

BGU noted that the findings, published in Nature Genetics, could pave the way for personalized medicine in obesity. The study, part of the international Human Cell Atlas project, mapped fat cell ...

Nature Genetics is the primary research journal for the genetics community. With a reputation for quality global coverage, Nature Genetics delivers the latest research across the field ...