Approximately one in 5,000 children is born with mitochondrial mutations each year. Defective mitochondria "leave the body ...

Deep in the Solomon Islands lives an African-descended tribe with dark skin and naturally blonde hair. Here's the genetic ...

The only creatures known to conceive offspring from more than two parents are salamanders. Females from the genus Ambystoma ...

In a recent dispatch to a writer friend from our days of California dreaming (several years ago he too had returned from L.A. to his native Calgary, Canada, to become, among other cool things, a ...

Toupees, which have been rebranded by some as hair systems and are called cranial protheses by medical professionals, have become an unexpected fixture on social media, with both clients and stylists ...

Researchers report that eight healthy babies were born with the help of an experimental technique that uses DNA from three ...