The antimalarial drug mefloquine could help treat genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, as ...

Apr. 23, 2025 — An international team has identified a potential microbial culprit behind the alarming rise in early-onset colorectal cancer: a bacterial toxin called colibactin. Scientists ...

Genetics is the branch of science concerned with genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms. It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring, including ...

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Your genetics (traits passed from parents to children) and family history can increase your risk of developing depression. The condition is about 40% heritable (meaning there's a 40% chance of ...

Plant genetics deals with heredity in plants, specifically mechanisms of hereditary transmission and variation of inherited characteristics. Plant genetics differs from animal genetics in a number ...

A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth's most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a ...

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Rabat – Morocco has taken a major step forward in medical genetics with the introduction of Whole Exome Sequencing (WES), a thorough diagnostic tool that is reshaping genetic testing on a global ...

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From soft actuators that mimic real muscle to DNA drives that can store petabytes in a sugar cube, humanity is engineering ...

Niche – a genetics survival game offers an intriguing survival adventure where peculiar creatures thrive on a remote island. The gameplay is meticulously crafted around the principles of genetics and ...