Dogs share our homes, our habits and sometimes, our diseases. Gastric cancer is rare in dogs, but when it does strike, it ...

Scientists map 193 cannabis genomes, uncovering hidden diversity and new possibilities for agriculture, medicine, and ...

Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive ...

Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive ...

An international group of gene editing leaders has put out a call for a 10-year ban on heritable human genome editing (HHGE), ...

BACKGROUND: Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is substantially influenced by genetic factors. Sarcomere function is intricately associated with other organelles, particularly the reciprocal regulation ...

Environmental factors such as lifestyle and the medications you take influence the effects your genes have on your body — and can clarify how diseases develop.

Complex traits are influenced by genes and the environment, but especially the latter is difficult to pin down. This important study uses C. elegans to demonstrate that non-genetic differences in gene ...

In a study published in Nature today "Sequence diversity lost in early pregnancy," scientists from deCODE genetics, a ...

Life’s ability to successfully copy three billion distinct letters in the human genome is an absolute biological wonder—but ...

"A more complete view of variation within our genomes is foundational to advancing research on cancer, aging, and infertility, as well as countless other aspects of human health." Our genome sequences ...

“These parts of the human genome that we haven’t been able to study for 20 ... then we’re missing a huge amount of the variation present in our population. T2T sets us up to look across hundreds of ...