This comprehensive e-book from The Hindu explores how gene editing tools like CRISPR and synthetic biology are fundamentally changing what it means to be human and are giving us the power to modify ...

A new genetic mapping strategy reveals how entire networks of genes work together to cause disease, filling in the missing ...

A new genome-wide mapping method finally shows how thousands of genes connect to drive disease. Biomedical researchers are working intensively to identify the genes that contribute to disease, with ...

Humans have it. So does Drosophila. But not yeast. That "it" is a small pause at the start of gene activity—a brief molecular halt that may have helped life evolve from simple cells to complex animals ...

Aortic stenosis is a narrowing of the aortic valve, which connects the heart to the rest of the body. It affects millions of ...

Mo Khalil is the Hok Lam and Kathleen Kam Wong Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at ...

Obesity is not a single disease. New research shows distinct biological phenotypes that explain why weight gain and treatment ...

Australian scientists have identified the key genetic drivers behind long COVID, revealing why some people continue to ...

Key Takeaways Different mental health conditions might be driven by similar geneticsResearchers created five different genetic categories containing the 14 most prominent mental health conditionsMost ...

The largest study so far into the genetics of chronic fatigue syndrome, or myalgic encephalomyelitis, has implicated 259 ...

The authors of a new Australian study say they have identified a set of 32 genetic variants that increase the likelihood of ...