The researchers deployed a newly developed machine learning system called SIGNET – Statistical Inference on Gene Regulatory ...

Study identified numerous influential “hub genes” that offer promising new targets for early detection and therapeutic intervention.

It seemed deeply unfair that in this era of precision medicine, where targeted therapies are the treatment of choice for cancer in humans, they didn’t exist for cats,’ says the senior author of the st ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ancestry, according to a study published in Nature Communications. Subscribe to ...

Muscles make up nearly 40% of the human body and power every move we make, from a child's first steps to recovery after ...

This story is one of many exploring recent advances in the science of longevity and aging. The following few articles in the series, including this one, will focus on the relationship between genetics ...

The contribution of genetics to the variability in people’s metabolism has remained largely unknown. This is, in part, because genetic studies of human metabolism have been limited in scale and ...

Climate change tests the resilience of farmers and their crops. To better understand how plants respond to their dynamic environments, scientists magnify the complex biological conversations between ...

The authors of the study pictured in the facilities housing MareNostrum5, the supercomputer which was critical for processing the vast amounts of data generated by the study. Human gene maps contain ...