For decades, geneticists have known that most common illnesses are not caused by a single rogue gene but by intricate constellations of DNA variants acting together in specific cells. Now a new ...

A recent study finds that certain psychiatric disorders have considerable genetic overlap. But these genes aren’t the whole ...

Satyen K. Bordoloi My first memory of cancer is the younger brother of a classmate. Blood cancer, we whispered between ...

Researchers uncover how the fruitless gene steers brain development and social feeding behavior in male honeybees.

Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any moment, the brain is flooded with information, and staying focused depends ...

New open-source software identifies complex gene regulation networks across cancers and predicts patient survival.

Researchers developed RNACOREX, an open-source tool that maps gene regulation networks by analyzing miRNA–mRNA interactions. Validated across 13 cancer types using TCGA data, the software predicts ...

Researchers from Kyushu University have developed an innovative computational method, called ddHodge, that can reconstruct ...

An international team, including researchers from HSE University, has created the first comprehensive map of ...

For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...