Researchers at the University of California San Diego have completed a massive genetic study that identifies key biological ...
For decades, geneticists have known that most common illnesses are not caused by a single rogue gene but by intricate constellations of DNA variants acting together in specific cells. Now a new ...
The chemicals flowing through your bloodstream tell a story that your DNA alone cannot. They reflect what you eat, how your ...
NT-proBNP is one of the most widely used tested biomarkers in medicine. Doctors rely on it to diagnose and monitor heart ...
A major cardiovascular risk factor is thickening of the heart walls (hypertrophy), which can result from high blood pressure—but is also linked to inherited diseases of the heart which can lead to ...
To learn more about the biology underlying cocaine addiction, researchers analyzed almost 900 rats to map the genetic basis ...
Our understanding of human metabolism is mostly based on dedicated hypothesis testing in experimental settings, informed by model organisms or observations in patients with rare diseases. Only ...
Bionano Genomics and Greenwood Genetic Center have announced a study published in Genome Research, marking the first use of optical genome mapping (OGM) to explore the genetic factors behind neural ...
Single-cell expression quantitative trait loci (sceQTL) mapping offers a powerful approach for understanding gene regulation and its heterogeneity across cell types and states. It has profound ...
The ability of different genetic variants—changes to one or more building blocks of DNA—to cause disease, and to what extent, has historically been opaque. Geneticist and Crick group leader Greg ...
A unique gene found in sloths might hold the key to ageing well, a pioneering study has suggested. In a scientific first, ...