Research co-authored by an Oklahoma Museum of Natural History curator, her graduate student and an international team of ...

We’ve written recently about the species that have disappeared, both the confirmed extinct and populations crashing toward genetic oblivion. There is a quieter loss happening inside animals that are ...

Tasmanian devils face extinction due to contagious cancers and shrinking genetic diversity. Scientists are mapping genetic ...

Two-thirds of animal and plant populations are declining in genetic diversity, which makes it harder to adapt to environmental changes, according to research published Wednesday. Long before a species ...

Canada's wildlife boasts a surprising new champion: the Western toad. Researchers have identified a population in Alberta as ...

A landmark study harnesses long-read sequencing to reveal vast, previously undetected structural variations in human DNA, reshaping our understanding of genetics and disease potential. Study: ...

Amazonians are as genetically different from Andeans as Europeans are from East Asians when it comes to genetic variants that affect the response to certain drugs, according to a recent commentary.

The majority of genetic studies focus on people of European descent, which limits the understanding of how genes influence health in other populations. Now researchers at the Perelman School of ...

Australia’s koalas have become an increasingly familiar symbol of a wider conservation problem. Habitat loss, disease, road ...

This article is authored by Venkataswamy Eswarachari, associate vice president and senior director, Lab Operations, MedGenome ...