Aortic stenosis is a narrowing of the aortic valve which connects the heart to the rest of the body. It affects millions of people and can be fatal if left untreated. At present, there are no ...

Historic population bottlenecks left cheetahs genetically similar, increasing disease risk and threatening long-term survival ...

A study suggests psychiatric disorders can share the same genetic signatures and that they may stem from shared biological ...

Genetic ancestry is a concept that has long captured people’s imaginations. It’s no surprise that it’s been turned into a ...

Researchers from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) report that most genetic influences on mental illness are shared across diagnostic categories, revealing a more interconnected biological ...

The present theory offers a unified solution to three closely related evolutionary problems. (1) Why does an evolving population explore only a small fraction of the accessible pathways in genotype ...

Study shows Philippine Eagles in Mindanao have low genetic diversity, but PEF’s captive breeding stock in Davao retains key ...

Plant mutation breeding, also called variation breeding, is a method that uses physical radiation or chemical means to induce spontaneous genetic variation in plants to develop new crop varieties.

What's the most genetically diverse species? A butterfly that comes in 20 colors? A bacterium that divides every 20 minutes, accumulating genetic mutations along the way? The current record holder, it ...

Australian researchers have for the first time pinpointed specific genetic changes that increase the risk of severe, ...