Every spring, Canadian beekeepers await the arrival of queen bees crucial to their industry. The queens that populate Canadian bee colonies through the season largely do not come from Canada at all.

Thyroid problems affect millions of people around the world, yet many people do not fully understand how important this small gland is. The thyroid is located in the front of your neck, and although ...

An international research collaboration led by Queen Mary University of London and University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in ...

Some viruses that make us sick are cleared by the immune system within days, while others lurk in our bodies for a lifetime ...

Are we evolving to be more stupid? Humans have a relatively high genetic mutation rate, which has been thought to be driving ...

An immune-related gene has now been tied to a rare inherited neurological disorder, revealing an overlooked pathway in the ...

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

Researchers analyze 2.2 million genomes to show that addiction risk is primarily driven by broad genes affecting brain wiring ...

An analysis of 2.2 million people reveals both shared and substance-specific genetic pathways for addiction risk, showing ...

I don’t really see the point of grafting onto him our vision of what he ought to have been doing. I’m interested in trying to ...

Animals that dwell at high altitudes have adapted to cope with low oxygen levels, a condition that damages a vital part of ...

“I was taking people out with my trolley at the supermarket because my peripheral vision was gone.” When Ms Fink noticed a dark shade across her left eye, she sought advice from her optometrist. In ...