The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer's disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of the puzzle.

A combination of human pedigree analysis and fruit fly genetics has identified a gene variant that appears to prevent PIGA-CDG, a rare but serious seizure disorder. The findings could ultimately lead ...

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...

From understanding hereditary diseases to predicting drug responses, sequencing helps researchers uncover the subtle language ...

Kidney disease, leading to kidney failure, afflicts disproportionately more black people than white people. Thus, there is a huge burden of kidney healthcare costs among black people all over the ...

A new study has unveiled the genetic mechanism controlling citric acid content in jujube fruit, identifying a natural ...

The human genome can have some quirky features, like copy number variation. When this happens, an individual carries, or loses bits of DNA, which ... | Genetics And Genomics ...

According to the experts, humans will look a lot more uniform in the future. They predict the average person will have darker ...