This is the first time such results have been achieved in both children and adult patients born with a specific type of ...

How does the CRISPR Down Syndrome breakthrough work to remove the extra chromosome 21? We are closer than ever to a world ...

Generations Z and Alpha are growing up in an extremely stressful environment. They’re effectively drifting on the tides of ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

For the first time, scientists have systematically studied the genetic effects of chemotherapy on healthy tissues.

Long-term, persistent weekly or more frequent cannabis smoking leaves a distinct and partially reversible epigenetic ...

Genetic variation also plays a major role. It doesn’t encode trauma itself, but it shapes traits such as sensitivity to ...

We suggest that the methodology developed in the present study should be applied for analyzing other populations of Northeast Brazil, in order to ascertain their consanguinity levels and also to ...

Discover how cystic fibrosis genetics affect inheritance patterns and symptom. Learn about CFTR mutations, testing options, and emerging genetic therapies.

The new genetic variant allowed agricultural populations to synthesize them from short-chain fatty acids found in plants. This variant was rare at first, but now it is present in about 60 percent ...

Insurance companies say their policies won't cover genetic drift, the term used to describe cross-pollination between biotech and nonbiotech fields. That reflects not only the novelty of the problem ...

Since drift only influences fixation time, which can have a significant effect in short-term evolution (as shown in Fig 2), but it does not affect fixation rate itself. In contrast, selection ...