New research reveals how octopuses and other cephalopods developed some of the most complex nervous systems in the animal ...

Major depressive disorder (MDD), one type of depression, is one of the most common psychiatric conditions worldwide. It is ...

PrecisionLife, an AI-led precision medicine company focused on complex chronic diseases, has today launched the Post COVID DNA Wellness Report, translating more than five years of leading long COVID ...

Scientists accidentally discovered a microscopic organism with a genetic code that breaks a rule researchers thought was ...

A research team led by Zhen-Xing Endowed Professor Jian Yang at the School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, has developed a pangenome-informed genome assembly (PIGA) method. By combining a ...

A team of researchers has conducted the largest and most comprehensive genome-wide association study (GWAS) to date of schizophrenia in individuals of African ancestry. The work was led by scientists ...

A modified North Carolina Design III mapping study in maize has identified 14 major QTLs and new candidate genes underlying ...

Universal germline genetic testing of nearly 40,000 patients with solid tumors detected a substantial proportion of inherited gene variants that would have been missed by the standard germline testing ...

Bowel habits aren't exactly dinner-table talk. But they reflect how quickly the gut moves things along, and when that goes wrong, people can experience constipation, diarrhea, or irritable bowel ...

Autism diagnosed in early childhood is genetically distinct from autism diagnosed after age 10, according to a new study that identified two unique genetic profiles in early- and later-diagnosed ...

Genetic inheritance may sound straightforward: One gene causes one trait or a specific illness. When doctors use genetics, it’s usually to try to identify a disease-causing gene to help guide ...