The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

People who frequently add salt to their meals may face a higher risk of developing depression. A new paper published in ...

This research provides a comprehensive analysis of deleterious mutations in pear (Pyrus spp.) during domestication, shedding light on their impact on agronomic traits. By resequencing 232 pear ...

Genetics aren't necessarily destiny for those with mutations thought to always cause inherited blindness, a new study says. Fewer than 30% of people with these genetic variants wind up blind, even ...

Jean-Tristan Brandenburg receives funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under grant 01KA2220B to the RHISSA Programme for the NORA Consortium. Additionally, he is ...

Twin studies can help geneticists determine whether some trait or condition is caused by the environment, or by genetics. Since identical twins carry basically the same genome, if a trait is due to ...

Researchers still do not have a comprehensive picture of the factors that influence gene expression in human cancers. Understanding gene expression in cancer is important because it can reveal how the ...

1 Nuvance Health/Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA. 2 School of Osteopathic Medicine, A.T. Still University, Visalia, CA, USA. 3 Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, ...

Many animals resort to cannibalism under desperate conditions, but spadefoot toad tadpoles have evolved cannibalism as a normal part of development. One hypothesis proposes that such novel traits are ...

Prostate cancer (PC) is one of the most prevalent cancers in the developed world, where its incidence is still increasing. Most PCs are thought to arise from high-grade prostatic intraepithelial ...

The small study in patients with a rare disorder that causes liver and lung damage showed the potential for precisely targeted infusions. By Gina Kolata Researchers have corrected a disease-causing ...