The fatty membrane surrounding every living cell is a vibrant environment where countless biological processes take place.

Researchers provided a long-awaited and rare genetic diagnosis in a child with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a type of ...

Every human being is ... structure in the 1950s that genetic misspellings and other mutations accruing in non-reproductive, or somatic, tissues could help explain disease and aging.

Scientists have pinpointed nearly 300 "hotspots" in the human genome ... Evidence suggests genetics plays a big role, and specific gene variants have been tied to the disorder in the past.

Inc., the Department of Genetics in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, the Ludwig Neurodegenerative Disease Seed Grants Program at Harvard Medical School, and the National Human ...

The result is that many modern breeds suffer from ailments that dog lovers never would have deliberately selected for.

We then highlight recent findings from genetic studies of human circadian disorders, which illustrate the striking conservation of clock-gene function in model organisms and humans, and we also ...