A study by the University of Barcelona has identified nearly 20 genes that could contribute to some people being more ...

Wild snapdragons showcase an impressive ability to adjust their petal colors with the help of seven genes, aimed at ...

Abraham Lincoln, for one, may have had the syndrome—and are at very high risk of a kind of fatal rupture in the heart.

Within every muscle of every living species with a backbone, a protein called myosin tugs on a partner protein to generate a ...

Inside the cell nucleus, genes must be turned on and off with precision to regulate biological processes. The first models of ...

Baylor College of Medicine researchers are part of a collaborative research group with AstraZeneca and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center that have identified 22 genes which increase the risk of ...

How complex neural circuits are genetically designed and wired is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Scientists have shown for the first time that genes encode a "wiring map" that guides neurons ...

In a global breakthrough published in Nature Genetics, researchers have successfully mapped the cells and genes that regulate bone formation and loss at an unprecedented scale and discovered the ...

Researchers have created the world's first graph-based mung bean pan-genome, revealing genetic variations linked to yield, ...

The compulsion to see what lies beyond that far ridge or that ocean—or this planet—is a defining part of human identity and ...