Whether genes are able to compromise between their competing interests can have consequences for development. pressureUA/iStock via Getty Images Plus As a species, humans like to think that we are ...

A recent study finds that certain psychiatric disorders have considerable genetic overlap. But these genes aren’t the whole ...

Genes were once thought to be static. But recent research in the field of epigenetics has found that genes can and do change in response to environmental cues. We know that genes are capable of ...