New research reveals that the intense physical reactions people experience when listening to music or looking at visual art, such as a sudden shiver or goosebumps, are partly linked to natural ...

World Down Syndrome Day on March 21 highlights Trisomy 21, a genetic condition affecting millions. While biology is ...

Claims that genes determine intelligence, health and social outcomes are reappearing. But modern science shows environment ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

Animals come in an extraordinary range of body shapes. A starfish looks nothing like an earthworm, a mouse, or a human. Yet even closely related species can appear radically different: corals, ...

The French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had the wrong idea about the way evolution works. But he helped advance a ...

Researchers have identified a distinct and reproducible gene expression program associated with neurotransmission in the ...

Researchers identify a gene expression program in the living human brain that tracks with real-time neurotransmission, bridging the gap between genetics and electrical brain activity.

Rutgers Brain Health Institute supports students through federally funded training grants, scholar programs, and ...

His method of locating genes in human DNA allowed researchers to find disease-causing genes, and later to map the entire, ...