A global research team co-led by VCU expert Kenneth Kendler has produced the most comprehensive genetic map so far, identifying five families of disorders that show a high degree of overlap. An intern ...

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

A research team from the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has harnessed citywide genetic data and ...

Cherry leaf spot is a destructive disease that causes premature defoliation, fruit yield loss, and long-term tree weakening in cherry orchards.

A donor whose sperm has been used to conceive at least 197 children throughout Europe carried a cancer-linked genetic ...

By comparing clinical cohorts and populations from Singapore and the US, researchers will study infectious diseases, corneal disorders, liver transplant outcomes, diabetes and lung cancer to uncover ...

A sperm donor with a rare genetic mutation linked to an increased risk of developing cancer fathered at least 197 children ...

A pioneering study has found that an individualized approach to breast cancer screening that assesses patients’ risk, rather than automatically giving annual mammograms, can lower the chance of more ...

People typically think about evolution as a linear process where, within a species, the classic adage of "survival of the ...

Alzheimer's trials testing Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster GLP-1 drug semaglutide, despite their failure, underscore a shift to ...

This large-scale genomic analysis of 14 psychiatric disorders shows that most heritable risk is shared across five broad ...

Genetic risk models and variant classification tools are refining breast cancer risk assessment by identifying high-risk ...