How much do your genes determine how long you'll live? It's a question that fascinates us, and one that's been debated for ...

In the ongoing effort to determine just how much of who we are is preordained by our genetic code, heritability, a statistical measurement of how much variation in a trait can be attributed to genetic ...

Clinicians' ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing to disease risk. A study published September 2 nd in the open-access journal ...

Study: Signatures of transmission in within-host Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex variation: a retrospective genomic epidemiology study. Image Credit: Creativa Images/Shutterstock.com Reducing the ...

AlphaGenome is a DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction to understand genome function.

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we evolved. But some of the most changeable regions of our DNA have been ...

Evolutionary biologists study the changes that occur in plants, animals, and microbes over time and within current populations. When addressing a virus outbreak (like COVID-19), scientists in this ...

Genetic variation in livestock is a critical area of research that underpins modern breeding practices and agricultural productivity. Differences in DNA sequences, including single nucleotide ...

There are a number of C. trachomatis gene products that exhibit variability and may modulate disease severity (Figure 3). The major categories of variable chlamydial gene products and their roles in ...

For the first time, researchers at King's College London and the University of Florence have identified the specific genetic ...

A new study finds the genetic backgrounds of people in the U.S. are "highly complex" and may differ from their self-defined racial or ethnic groups. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...