Understanding genetics can help explain differences in disease susceptibility across populations, informing medical research ...

From the Black Death to the COVID-19 pandemic, combining the genetic data of a pathogen with historical records, ...

Scientists analyzing the genomes of thousands of people across Japan discovered evidence for a previously overlooked third ...

Conservation genomics is a bold new tool for protecting life on earth, but it will take all of us to slow the extinction ...

Advanced genetic tools have helped to reveal the importance of the dark genome, or DNA that does not code for protein, but ...

A major genetic analysis of over 3,200 Japanese individuals reveals a more complex ancestry than previously thought, ...

Scientists at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, have uncovered a crucial trick used by enteroviruses—the group behind diseases like polio, myocarditis, encephalitis, and even the common ...

American scientists have discovered a hidden molecular mechanism that helps enteroviruses multiply in the human body. This ...

The APOE2 gene variant protects against Alzheimer's by enhancing DNA repair and preventing neuronal senescence.

At the heart of life is an information-rich molecule, DNA, bearing a language-based code that specifies the construction of ...

People who carry the APOE2 version of the apolipoprotein E gene are more likely to live to advanced age and are partly ...

Biologists have long puzzled over why organisms with similar numbers of protein-coding genes can differ so dramatically in ...