Mendel's pea plant study, rediscovered in 1900, laid the foundation for genetics, with new insights revealed in 2025.

Researchers have identified genetic variants in the FOXP4 gene that significantly increase the risk of developing long COVID, ...

Figure 2: Evolution at a candidate locus depending on its effect and genetic background. Recent theoretical models of adaptation have highlighted that a mixture of alleles of small and large ...

Compositional epistasis' is a new term that is intended to describe the traditional usage of epistasis as the blocking of one allelic effect by an allele at another locus. The only way that this ...

A small cluster of cells deep within our brains, called the locus coeruleus, affects how awake and attentive we are, how we ...

Somatic hypermutation (SHM) of immunoglobulin variable (V) regions modulates antibody-antigen affinity is initiated by activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) on single-stranded DNA (ssDNA).

The US government has provided almost $24 million in funding to Locus Biosciences to support a mid-stage trial of LBP-EC01, a CRISPR-engineered bacteriophage therapy in development for resistant ...

Genomics-assisted breeding (GAB) offers a powerful tool to accelerate the improvement of crops and livestock, enabling more efficient, precise, and ...

Ovarian cancer is the 6th most common cancer in females in the UK, accounting for 4% of all new cancer cases in females (2017-2019). In females and males combined, ovarian cancer is the 16th most ...

This phenomenon is known as multilocus inherited neoplasia alleles syndrome (MINAS), which has been potentially linked to more severe clinical manifestations. Objective To determine the prevalence and ...

Correspondence to Fenne Wouters, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; f.wouters{at}lumc.nl Objectives The human leukocyte antigen-shared ...

Correspondence to Dr Minna Männikkö, Northern Finland Birth Cohort Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Aapistie 5 / P.O. Box 5000, 90014 University of Oulu, Finland; minna.ruddock{at}oulu.fi Background Low ...