A team of scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center has identified the cells that directly give rise to hair as well as the mechanism...
There are three different subspecies of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia), the world’s most elusive large big cat, according to a new study published...
An international team of scientists has identified a long-sought protein that causes liver fibrosis (scarring), paving the way for new treatments. The...
A multi-institutional team of researchers from China and the United States has sequenced the genome of the cultivated tea tree (Camellia sinensis).
A tea...
An international team of researchers from the United States and Italy has identified new genetic variants associated with extreme survival and reduced...
Genetic material from 161 modern breeds helped a team of researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes...
In two separate studies, researchers have demonstrated that both the structure of the brain and several memory functions are linked to immune-related genes.
The...
The International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium, which is led by Dr. Nils Stein of the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research,...
Genetic scientists from the University of California, Riverside, and the W.M. Keck Science Department of Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges,...
An international team of scientists led by the Rockefeller University has discovered that a variant of the human gene CRY1 (cryptochrome circadian clock...
An international team of scientists from the United States and Japan has seen how a particular gene, called the fatty acid binding protein 7 (FABP7), is...
An international team of scientists from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Sweden has used a genetic scoring technique to predict reading performance...
A duo of researchers at Columbia University has identified two genes (TMEM106B and GRN) that greatly impact normal brain aging, starting at around age...
According to a new study published in the journal PLoS Genetics, dwindling populations created a ‘mutational meltdown’ in the genomes of the last wooly...
Vitamin B3, also known as niacin and nicotinic acid, prevents eye degeneration in glaucoma-prone mice, according to a study published in the Feb. 17 issue...
Eighty-three height-associated genetic variants have been discovered in a large-scale study led by researchers from Queen Mary University of London, Montreal...
The growth of bacteria can be stimulated by antibiotics, according to a study published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
A DNA coverage plot...
