From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, scientists have come within reach of a goal once thought unattainable: building a complete functional wiring diagram of a portion of the ...

Genetic testing, also known as DNA testing, involves obtaining DNA from a sample of cells in your body to identify specific genes, chromosomes, or proteins, including those that are faulty (known as ...

Familial hypertension can be genetic, meaning you can get a gene from a parent that increases your risk of developing high blood pressure. You may also be more prone to developing high blood pressure ...

Genetic diversity is a crucial indicator for the conservation ... Six intersex Huang-Huai goats were slaughtered to study their reproductive organ anatomy (Han et al., 2022; Yang et al., 2021). HE ...

In some situations, this makes quite a mess of the neat and tidy tree diagram, and calls into question ... Arrows indicate the direction of gene flow, with admixture events (double arrows) labeled ...

The original Gene line-up have reunited and announced their first live show in over 20 years. Read NME‘s interview with frontman Martin Rossiter below, where he discusses what to expect from the ...

University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against phages—viruses that infect them. In a study published in Nature Microbiology ...

Some of the genes from Population B, "particularly those related to brain function and neural processing, may have played a crucial role in human evolution," study co-author Trevor Cousins, a ...

All modern humans share DNA from two ancient populations that split 1.5 million years ago and reunited through interbreeding about 300,000 years ago. The genetic mixture is approximately 80% from one ...

With this comes the question of how much of our lifespan is shaped by our environment and choices, and how much is predetermined by our genes. A study recently published in the prestigious journal ...