In a nutshell Scientists identified 473 “switch-like” genes that act more like on/off light switches than dimmers — either ...

If similar genes are found freely floating around in cells of higher organisms, "that would really be a game-changing discovery," Sternberg says. "There might be genes, or DNA sequences, that don ...

Like genes, your gut microbes pass from one generation to the next Understanding the origins of gut microbes could improve understanding of their role in human health By Taichi A. Suzuki - Ruth Ley ...

The team identified nearly 500 of these “switch-like” genes, whose expression is either very high or very low, by analyzing the genes of over 900 people and across 27 different kinds of tissue. The ...

Obesity causes many health problems and worsens several chronic illnesses, including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, however, some obese people are more susceptible to complications ...

The method applies the informatics tool Paraphrase in combination with HiFi long-read sequencing to provide a single framework for resolving highly similar paralogous genes. Population-wide ...

Using brain gene expression maps from the Allen Human Brain Atlas, the researchers tested the degree to which Alzheimer’s risk genes explain the patterns of both actual and residual tau. This allowed ...

While it may seem like common sense that people who look alike share more similar genes than those who don’t, Esteller says it had "never been shown" — until now.

With statements like "genes don't cause an epidemic," he emphasizes environmental factors as the reason for the rise in autism diagnoses. But what does the science actually say?

Back in 1998, evolutionary biologist W. Ford Doolittle noted that even if an inserted gene simply acts as a duplicate of an organism’s existing gene, it could take over the current gene’s role. Just ...

Most switch-like genes only expressed in a switch-like manner within a single kind of tissue. Just a small percentage of the switch-like genes were universally switch-like across all the tissues ...

If similar genes are found freely floating around in cells of higher organisms, "that would really be a game-changing discovery," Sternberg says. "There might be genes, or DNA sequences, that don ...