What can Gregor Mendel’s pea plants tell us about human disease? Single gene disorders, like Huntington’s disease and cystic fibrosis, actually follow Mendelian inheritance patterns.

Either way, the loss of a functional DONSON gene impaired the body’s ability to copy DNA fast enough to keep pacewith the needs of the early growing brain and body, explaining how a single ...

Breakthrough discovery in cancer research! Scientists uncover a simple genetic strategy to combat aggressive cancers. Learn ...

All other chromosomes = autosomes close autosomesChromosomes that control the characteristics of an organism but do not determine its sex. Recessive traits may skip generations and will affect ...

Researchers at the Kennedy Institute have developed a new computational framework that allows simultaneous analysis of gene ...

Single-cell multiomic analyses reveal known and new genes and pathways involved in the development of germ cells and provide a discovery platform for the scientific community.

Researchers from Tel Aviv University utilized CRISPR to cut a single gene from cancer cells of head and neck tumors—and successfully eliminated 50% of the tumors in model animals. This study was led ...

Using single-cell RNA sequencing, we mapped thousands of expression quantitative trait loci in yeast, including a variant in GPA1 that influences gene expression, cell-cycle occupancy, and mating ...

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have uncovered new genetic interactions that may contribute ...