In 2014, scientists found a remarkable clue in Tibetan DNA. They compared the EPAS1 gene in 40 Tibetans and 40 Han Chinese ...
A significant number of multiple myeloma patients may have an inherited but previously unrecognized risk of developing the disease—a type of blood cancer that affects plasma cells. That's the finding ...
Parents pass their genes down to their kids, with a child inheriting about 50% of their genome from each parent. But there is another kind of genetic code known as the epigenome that can also be ...
New research reveals non-Mendelian epigenetic inheritance in mice, challenging genetic assumptions and suggesting new avenues ...
A University of Texas at Austin-led team has reconstructed the most detailed map to date of the molecular machines that carried out the functions of life in an ancient ancestor that gave rise to all ...