Humans contain multitudes. Each person on the planet contains enough DNA to stretch to Pluto – several times. Studying how all this genetic material works, and especially how genes influence human ...

Have you ever wondered why your best friend loves cilantro while you think it tastes like soap? Or why your sibling can’t ...

Scientists found that messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules that carry genetic instructions to the far reaches of neurons in the ...

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The School of Medicine announced its establishment of the Stephen and Denise Adams Center for Parkinson’s Disease Research, which seeks to change the way that physicians diagnose and treat Parkinson’s ...

Studying how genes influence human behavior is an enormously complicated undertaking. Socio-genomicists are harnessing massive banks of genetic data and complex data science analysis techniques to ...