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An international metastudy led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has identified a specific gene variant that protects against severe COVID-19 infection.

By studying the plant Arabidopsis thaliana, researchers have found that RNA messages need a special protein to escort them where they need to go and without this escort, the plant fails to develop properly.

According to new research, a simple roadside weed may hold the key to understanding and predicting DNA mutation.

A study suggests that an adhesion molecule deficiency results in an inflammatory gene signature that may be a promising therapeutic target for inflammatory skin diseases.

A new ultra-rapid genome sequencing approach developed by scientists has been used to diagnose rare genetic diseases in an average of eight hours.

Researchers have identified a gene that determines whether ultraviolet iridescence shows up in the wings of butterflies.

Professors Monica Uddin and Derek Wildman of the College of Public Health looked at the entire genomes of Tutsi women who were pregnant and living in Rwanda at the time of the genocide and their offspring and compared their DNA to other Tutsi women pregnant at the same time and their offspring, who were living in other parts of the world.

A recent study found a dramatic and unexpected difference between the microbial diversity in guts of female and male American mink, which may apply to other carnivores.

A research team has discovered new neural circuits that regulate spatial learning and memory in the brain’s hippocampal formation.

Increasing the expression of one gene in cells that assist the brain’s neurons protects neurons in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease.