One gene causes one trait or a specific illness. When doctors use genetics, it's usually to try to identify a disease-causing ...
Could an anomaly in the developing brain explain motor difficulties occurring decades later in people with rare movement ...
A team of Kansas City scientists has published what the industry is calling a "landmark" study that offers new insight into fertility, miscarriages and Down syndrome.According to a release from the ...
A mixture of DNA and proteins—known as "chromatin"—sits inside every cell nucleus as a jumbled puddle of genetic information. As cells prepare to divide during mitosis, the chromatin is condensed into ...
Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome (BWS), a human genomic imprinting disorder, is characterized by phenotypic variability that might include overgrowth, macroglossia, abdominal wall defects, neonatal ...
“There’s nothing like a dame,” sang the Navymen in South Pacific. Not so, say physiologists. There are people who are something like a dame but are really men, or even a combination of male and female ...
It was found in guano near Astoria. Wildlife officials say people should take precautions so they don’t spread the fungus to new areas. Bats roost in a cave in Dorset, Vt., on May 2, 2023. A fungus ...
CHICAGO — I’m no Bryan Johnson, but I was feeling pretty confident when I strolled into the Northwestern Medicine Human Longevity Clinic in July. I’ve taken several aging tests over the past year to ...