DZNE researchers have generated new insights into how the human genome shapes the chemical composition and concentration of ...

More than 1 million people across the United States live with multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease that affects the brain, ...

Stevia’s bitter aftertaste is controlled by specific genes and where they activate inside the leaf, which may help improve ...

Long-distance gene control first emerged around 650 to 700 million years ago, significantly earlier than scientists had ...

The all-Republican court dealt a blow to Gov. Greg Abbott and state Republicans in their efforts to severely punish the more ...

How complex neural circuits are genetically designed and wired is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Scientists have ...

Most genetic studies focus on people from European ancestry. But Africa has the richest diversity and must be included in ...

How do our genes determine our appearance and our susceptibility to disease? This question is central to biomedical research, and today we can sequence thousands of human genomes to identify these ...

The ability of different genetic variants—changes to one or more building blocks of DNA—to cause disease, and to what extent, has historically been opaque. Geneticist and Crick group leader Greg ...

Schematic overview of how Hi-C–integrated multi-omics links phages and plasmids to their prokaryotic hosts in wastewater biofilms. The figure illustrates distinct distribution patterns of phages and ...

David Botstein, a molecular biologist who changed the course of genetics by discovering a method for locating genes in human DNA — allowing researchers to find disease-causing genes and to map the ...