A new study, reported in the American Journal of Human Genetics, confirms that a gene called USP9X is critical to the earliest stages of the human brain...
A new study published online in the journal Nature Communications sheds light on high-altitude adaptations in modern Tibetans. Also, it suggests that Tibetans...
In two new studies, genetic researchers have shown that about 20 percent of the Neanderthal genome survives in modern humans of non-African ancestry and...
Scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences say they have for the first time successfully grown human hairs using dermal...
Genetic researchers reporting in the journal Nature Genetics have discovered an additional 48 genetic variants influencing the risk of developing multiple...
A team of scientists led by Dr Peter Fraser from the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK, has developed a new method to determine the 3D structures of...
An international team of researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology has found evidence that ageing works through a special set of genes that...
According to a team of scientists from the University of North Carolina and the University of California, Los Angeles, different types of happiness have...
Two proteins called TAS1R3 and GNAT3, which have been previously known to be involved in oral taste detection, also play a crucial role in sperm development,...
A new study conducted by genetic researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign suggests that the regulatory gene Egr, known to be involved...
A multinational group of geneticists writing in the journal Neuron has reversed schizophrenia-like symptoms in adult mice by restoring normal expression...
A team of genetic scientists led by Dr Shu-Jin Luo from Peking University in Beijing, using whole-genome sequences of white and normally-colored Bengal...
A team of researchers from the Texas Biomedical Research Institute reporting online in the Journal of Lipid Research has identified 4 genes in baboons...
A large multinational team of genetic researchers has identified three unique genetic variations that influence body size and obesity in men and women...
A study published in the journal Neurology shows that, in some families, only one gene may be responsible for fainting, also known as vasovagal syncope.
Fainting...
An international scientific collaboration led by Dr Ruth Loos of Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK, and Dr Erik Ingelsson of the Uppsala University,...
U.S. genetic researchers led by Prof James McManaman from the University of Colorado’s School of Medicine have found that deleting a gene called Perilipin...
U.S. scientists have discovered that a protein called Jagged-1 stimulates stem cells to differentiate into bone-producing cells.
Structure of the Jagged...
By comparing DNA of children to that of elderly people, a multinational team of geneticists has identified rare gene variants that influence human lifespan.
An...
