Investigating context-specific genetic associations can lead to deeper understanding of the biological mechanisms underlying human traits. With this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Nature ...

Humans walk upright, carry brains three times larger than those of our closest relatives, and possess slender, distinctly ...

Emmeline Hill was one of the first to study how genes influence horse traits. Now, she uses genetics to improve the welfare ...

As genetics and biotechnology become increasingly important in school curricula, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has ...

Mo Khalil is the Hok Lam and Kathleen Kam Wong Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences ...

Systems biology is the study of biological systems whose behaviour cannot be reduced to the linear sum of their parts’ functions. Systems biology does not necessarily involve large numbers of ...

The research team led by Professor Jongmin Kim from the Department of Life Sciences at POSTECH, along with graduate students Hyunseop Goh and Seungdo Choi, has successfully developed the 'Synthetic ...

A Mendelian randomization study of 191 brain imaging phenotypes and 1,270 stroke patients finds genetic evidence that ...

A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers stumbled upon a bizarre genetic code in a microscopic pond organism.

For a long time, scientists have suspected that stuttering — a common speech condition that affects an estimated 1 in every 100 people — could be heritable. Despite how common it is, it's still a ...

The Department of Biology offers courses to explore a vast array of biological questions to all students. This includes University Core courses for non-majors, the introductory curriculum that ...