Your DNA may predict more about you than the way you look. According to the genetic theory of aging, your genes (as well as mutations in those genes) are responsible for how long you'll live. Here's ...

If your relatives have had heart issues, you may be more at risk due to shared genes. Even when environmental factors play a role, getting tested for any inherited heart conditions is important.

Despite extensive advancements in cancer genetics in North America and Europe, the African continent remains underrepresented in this vital research area. Here we highlight a pioneering ...

Plant genetics deals with heredity in plants, specifically mechanisms of hereditary transmission and variation of inherited characteristics. Plant genetics differs from animal genetics in a number ...

which evolved through duplication events that provide plants with additional copies of genetic information. Using a common model plant called Arabidopsis thaliana, or thale cress, Zhong and her ...

They say the concerns which led to genetic testing being abandoned in 1999 remain, “and are amplified by the vastly increased number of younger athletes” it is proposed would be tested under ...

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals a novel genetic basis of resistance to transgenic crops in one of the most important crop pests in the United States.

Genetic data from nature is used in a wide range of products from nutrient-enriched rice to stone washed denim jeans distressed using enzymes derived from microbes. The deal comes after countries ...

Department of Chemistry The Scripps Research Institute; La Jolla, California 92037, United States Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology The Scripps Research Institute; La ...

Now a team in the US and France says they have performed even more advanced genetic analyses to peer deeper into Covid’s early days. It involved analysing millions of short fragments of genetic ...

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