Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure share a genetic link, new research from the University of Surrey, UK and the ...

Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to catalog the vast and largely unknown soil microbiome of the United States.

Doctoral graduate Zanetta Toomata was amazed at high school in Hawaii to learn that something as tiny as DNA could hold the blueprint for life and is now dedicated to genetics. Dr Zanetta Toomata ...

Effective November 1, 2025, UAB Medical Genomics Laboratory will no longer accept Medicare for payment of genetic testing services due to Medicare’s limited coverage for these types of tests. For more ...

Explore human genetics and develop an understanding of how human genetic diseases are diagnosed clinically at the chromosome and DNA levels. Apply now for 2026 entry or join us on a discovery ...

Similar to the human eyes, nose, and lips, the earlobes also have unique features. Although the human ears appear similar, minor structural differences make each ear different from the other. The ...

To encourage scientists to speak up when people misuse science to serve political agendas, biology professor Mark Peifer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill argues that eugenics should ...

The next ISG workshop will be held in Boulder, Colorado, March 6th-10th 2023. The course is planned to include sessions on: causes of variation; biometrical genetics; UNIX/R scripting; whole-genome ...

Genetics is the study of genes, genomes and heredity. It has developed rapidly in the last decade as new technology has made it possible to study genes in much greater detail and to rapidly sequence ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health challenge that affects more than 800 million people worldwide. 1 CKD can be caused by a variety of disease processes. Many causes are difficult to ...

A targeted panel of actionable high-risk hereditary cancer predisposition genes to identify patients with pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants (PVs) irrespective of meeting established NCCN testing ...