Unreviewed research platforms are inadvertently hosting debunked theories about race and genetics. A recent analysis reveals ...

Genetic factors primarily explain the link between parental and childhood BMI, with maternal obesity impacting birth weight ...

Amid the peatlands of northern Sweden, billions of microbes are quietly rewriting their genetic playbooks—and doing so far more often than scientists realized.

Gamete donation is one of the greatest achievements of reproductive medicine, a practice that for decades has allowed ...

As predictive medicine advances, legal scholars warn that decades-old federal guidelines could set up a potential clash between your genes and your job. By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn Imagine this ...

The major objective of this study was to estimate heritability and genetic correlations between milk yield (MY) and calving interval (CI) and lactation length (LL) in Murrah buffaloes using Bayesian ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Large observational datasets are often used in epidemiology or social sciences to identify risk factors associated with health outcomes. However, these studies can be misleading when the putative risk ...

Researchers at the University of Oregon have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can read genetic code the way large language models like ChatGPT read text. Scanning the genome for ...

NOTE: December 2024 main software development has moved to PanGEMMA! GEMMA is a software toolkit for fast application of linear mixed models (LMMs) and related models to genome-wide association ...

AlphaGenome can analyse up to 1m letters of DNA code at once and could pave way for new treatments Researchers at Google DeepMind have unveiled their latest artificial intelligence tool and claimed it ...

Dr. Goel, MD, MPH, is a board-certified physician who specializes in public health, communicable disease, diabetes, and health policy. Learn about our Medical Expert Board Genetic disorders are ...