News Stories relating to "dna"

Scientists have found a gene that helps determine how athletic you are. Since this study was done in Australia, it doesn't answer the controversial question about why Blacks dominate sports in the U.S.?is it genetics, "culling" during slavery, or seizing an opportunity to advance? Also, once DNA testing becomes common, will recruiters use it to...

New research shows that people who have a particular genetic variation are more likely be inactive. And these people also get fewer of the benefits from the exercise they do get around to doing. It's harder for them to lower their blood pressure, cholesterol and body fat.

For instance, people with the lazy gene (called a melanocortin-4...

In another discovery about the importance of vitamins, scientists have been able to change the fur coat colors of baby mice by giving them four specific vitamins. It's known that pregnant women with poor nutrition tend to have children who get diabetes and heart disease. This means you owe your hair?and your health?to how your Mom ate.

Radio hosts Paul Harvey and Art Bell reported on a story from Scotland Yard about a bouncer who was stabbed to death in the alley outside The Paradise Bar in London. Pools of blood were left behind after the victim was taken away.

"They swabbed the blood up off the floor, they extracted DNA from it," says Marcia Eggleston, a researcher...