An analysis of genetic data from over 900,000 people shows that certain stretches of DNA, made up of short sequences repeated ...

Scientists discovered that aging DNA repeats expand at wildly different speeds—and in some people, the consequences can be devastating. A sweeping genetic study drawing on data from more than 900,000 ...

The model will allow, for the first time in Israel, the determination of a personal genetic risk score for breast cancer based on the genetic profile of each woman. This development could form the ...

An analysis of genetic data from over 900,000 people shows that certain stretches of DNA, made up of short sequences repeated ...

Dr. David Buchner is an accomplished geneticist and educator whose career spans more than two decades of research and leadership in human genetics, metabolic disease, and computational genomics. He ...

Understanding how genes interact to influence complex traits, such as Body Mass Index or total cholesterol levels, in humans is important for basic biology and precision medicine. Such interactions ...

FM: You teach Life Sciences 1B — the flagship introductory genetics class — along with three other professors. Some LS1B alumni I talked to said they were surprised that you taught it, given your ...

Course work and attendance at seminars and journal clubs are the major activities of first year students. Research in a faculty member’s lab or learning clinical genomic data analyses in a hospital ...

“We are well aware that the microbiome plays a critical role in human health, but our understanding of what exactly shapes the microbiome is very incomplete,” explained Pearl (Hongjiao) Liu, a ...

A rare genetic variant found in families affected by schizophrenia completely abolishes the function of TAAR1, an emerging ...