Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint ...

For decades, medical research has treated the human genome as the master blueprint for understanding disease. But a growing body of evidence suggests that what happens outside our cells, the sum total ...

It took a while for the science to basically catch up to that suspicion.” In these types of “recessive” conditions, the ...

A sweeping global effort to map the environmental roots of disease could reshape the future of health and medicine.

Scientists are launching an ambitious global effort to map the “human exposome” — the lifelong mix of environmental and ...

In two new studies on 28,000 individuals, researchers are able to show that genetic variants in 11 regions of the human genome have a clear influence on which bacteria are in the gut and what they do ...

In June, 2025, the Wellcome Trust announced an ambitious £10 million UK project called the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) and claimed it “will unlock a deeper understanding of life, leading to ...

New findings from Karolinska Institutet reveal how the gene HNRNPU coordinates several fundamental molecular processes during ...

Flax is a globally important crop valued for its fiber, industrial uses, and omega-3-rich oil, yet incomplete genomic information has long limited efforts to understand and improve its key traits.

The project focuses on increasing the diversity of genetic data and improving outcomes of conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and triple-negative breast cancer.

Researchers have established a gene-disease association between human astrotactin 1 gene, ASTN1, and neurodevelopmental disorders. The findings have provided answers to families that until now had no ...

To identify possible burn-injury response genes, researchers examined the transcriptomes (the genes expressed) in both burnt and unburnt skin from humans and rats. Examining the gene sequences, they ...