A new study of German twins suggests that the strong connection between a young adult's cognitive ability and their future socioeconomic status is largely driven by their genes, rather than shared ...

Statistics that quantify a person’s predisposition to diseases such as diabetes and cancer can be reverse-engineered to reveal the underlying genetic data, prompting privacy concerns ...

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A team of researchers in Geneva has developed an artificial intelligence system that analyses complex gene-expression ...

In June 2024, Rebecca Bowyer, a 46-year-old nurse from Falmouth and an adoptee, finally received the name of her birth father from her social worker after 25 years of searching.

Scientists have developed an AI system that analyzes complex gene-expression signatures to estimate the likelihood that a tumor will spread.

Farm animal advocates have, over the last few decades, successfully drawn public attention to and meaningfully reduced the ...

Participants in a new study who spent more time being sedentary were more likely to experience decline regardless of how much they exercised.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in an airstrike on his Tehran compound. He was one of the central figures of the system from the earliest days of the 1979 revolution. In the 1980s, he ...

When an AI system in health care gives a confident answer, should clinicians trust it? In a new article from Frontiers in ...

A new poll has revealed that people living in areas where salmon farming takes place were more concerned about the environmental impact of ...

You might have heard people talk about ‘the depression gene’ or ‘the schizophrenia gene’ – these comments are misleading. While there is substantial evidence for a genetic component to mental health ...