In recent years, scientists have identified hundreds of different genes associated with autism, a burst of discovery that has ...

Gene expression is controlled, in part, by the interactions between genes and regulatory elements located along the genome.

Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths ...

Genetics can be challenging, but the right mix of theory, application, and practice transforms it into a subject you can master. From analyzing pedigrees to mapping genes, targeted exercises sharpen ...

In two new studies, researchers used genetic techniques to upend a longstanding assumption that nerve cells with scent ...

Texas Democrats are fuming after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling kept Texas' controversial new congressional map in place—calling ...

During infection, pathogens must adapt quickly to the conditions to thrive inside the body. A research team at the University ...

New clues from genetic research may help explain what causes the most common heart defect present at birth. Researchers at ...

In a new study published in Nature titled, “Mapping convergent regulators of melanoma drug resistance by PerturbFate,” researchers from The Rockefeller University have developed a platform called ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Michigan State University College of Human Medicine is working to raise awareness of an often hidden gene mutation that’s linked to Dutch ancestry. The PLN gene acts ...

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 ...