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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 the first medical therapy approved and systems like CRISPR-Cas showing up in complex cells, there’s a lot happening in the genome editing field.

You are what you eat—and what you eat may be encoded in your DNA. Studies have indicated that your genetics play a role in determining the foods you find delicious or disgusting.But exactly how ...

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 ...