As people live longer, the gut quietly accumulates damage that can tip the balance between healthy tissue renewal and chronic ...

Mental illness is often described in abstract terms, but is rooted in the brain. A study reveals that genes influencing ...

Researchers uncover how the fruitless gene steers brain development and social feeding behavior in male honeybees.

Artificial intelligence has just redrawn the map of our genome’s control room, revealing hundreds of thousands of tiny DNA ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

Seals give birth only when conditions are right. After mating, a female seal can delay implantation of the embryo in the ...

Triglia discusses her research at the intersection of genetics, epigenetics, single-cell genomics and computational biology.

Gene therapy represents one of medicine’s most ambitious attempts to treat disease at its root cause by altering the genetic code itself. The approach works by recovering the functions of critical ...

University of South Australia scientists have developed a powerful new way to uncover the genetic interactions that fuel cancer progression, paving the way for earlier and more precise treatments. The ...

A genetic variant is likely putting some children suffering with myocarditis—inflammation of the heart muscle—at higher risk of developing heart failure, which can be fatal, according to a study ...