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Repetitive DNA and the D1 protein help matching fruit fly chromosomes recognize one another before eggs form.

For decades, the hunt for the genetic roots of common disease has focused overwhelmingly on single-letter changes in the DNA ...

Sudden unexpected infant deaths now drive over a third of the Black-white infant mortality gap, a JAMA study shows. Safe sleep steps inside. Novo Nordisk Licenses Experimental Once-Weekly Obesity Pill ...

In 1968, the American biochemist and geneticist Marshall Nirenberg and his colleagues won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work deciphering how an organism's proteins are directly ...

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A rapidly evolving understanding of inheritable ILD, including telomere and surfactant gene variants, is reshaping how clinicians think about genetic testing.

The Australian redback spider (Latrodectus hasselti), a cousin of the North American black widow spider, is known to practice sexual cannibalism, which is somewhat common among spider species. However ...

A new study has provided new insights into the the genetic overlap among some psychiatric disorders, and can help explain why it’s not uncommon for several of these disorders to arise in the same ...

The development and progression of type 2 diabetes are affected by numerous biological processes, such as the body's response to insulin, the health of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells, and the ...