A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic entomologists investigating murders. (A single wriggling horse fly maggot, for instance, found on a dead body far from water, gave ...

A new synthesis finds that common epilepsies are driven by thousands of tiny-effect genetic variants, most still ...

Epilepsy is not one disease. It is a constellation of seizure disorders that affects approximately 50 million people globally and carries increased mortality, psychiatric comorbidity, and, for roughly ...

Scientists usually study the molecular machinery that controls gene expression from the perspective of a linear, two-dimensional genome—even though DNA and its bound proteins function in three ...

Biologists identify a new species of "living fossil" chiton through cutting-edge mitochondrial genome sequencing.

Researchers from Duke Health and the University of Minnesota recently discovered that measuring specific tiny genetic ...

Being invited to present research at an international academic conference is an honor for any seasoned professional. But for ...

Background Monogenic disorders are a major cause of fetal structural anomalies. Most genetic diagnoses involve de novo, biallelic or X linked variants; however, inherited variants in autosomal ...

Uncovering complex disease patterns from large-scale, heterogeneous health data remains a significant challenge. Traditional statistical methods and conventional machine learning algorithms often ...

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens access to non-coding regions, where most disease-associated genetic variants ...

The following is a systematic analysis of the decoding of the Congzi theory encoding human DNA, revealing the paradigm shift in genomics research by comparing the technological gap between traditional ...