Companies around the world are racing to patent the genetic building blocks of plankton – microscopic ocean life that ...

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Researchers have discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis. A study published in ...

Is Obesity Genetic or Environmental? Get All the Details This article was reviewed by Lynn Marie Morski, MD, JD. Key ...

New research finds that retinal diseases thought to map one-to-one to genetic mutations are more complicated than that.

Researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf have developed a tool that could significantly transform genome research: Helixer identifies genes directly from DNA ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

A plant named Virectaria stellata has genetic traits foreign to its family, challenging the classic rules of plant ...

Superagers is a term that generally describes adults 80 and older with episodic memory performance similar to that of people ...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population, but the tiny microbes living on and around rice plants may be just as important as the crop itself. A new study reveals that the specific genetic ...

Dopamine in the brain influences movement, learning, motivation and sleep. In humans, problems with dopamine are linked to ...