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 ...

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 ...

The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the waterspout. Down came the rain, and washed the spider out. Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain. And the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the spout again.

Apr. 18, 2025 — A new study provides solutions to the pressing need to identify factors that influence Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk or resistance while providing an ... Key Enzyme in Lipid ...

"One of the things that's really remarkable to me is that, maybe a decade ago, when these sort of studies first started coming out, we were just trying to associate a genetic change to how the ...

Biotechnology company, Amgen, has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire deCODE Genetics, a global leader in human genetics, for US $415 million. The all-cash ...

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 ...

Spider-Man has one of the most classic rogues' galleries in comics, and it has only grown larger and even more dangerous over ...

As US President Donald Trump takes aim at the Smithsonian Institution for "anti-American ideology", Adam Rutherford examines what the science of genetics has taught us about race. When scientists ...