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New research supported by the National Institutes of Health delineates how two relatively common variations in a gene called KIF3A are responsible for an impaired skin barrier that allows increased water loss from the skin, promoting the development of atopic dermatitis, commonly known as eczema.

Three centuries after the interment of a 17th Century Bishop, his astonishingly well-preserved remains provide insights to the origins of tuberculosis.

Findings published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology, show that a rapid molecular test called N1-STOP-LAMP, is accurate in diagnosing samples containing SARS-CoV-2 at high loads.

By sequencing ancient DNA, researchers found that the woolly rhinoceros population remained stable and diverse until only a few thousand years before it disappeared from Siberia, when temperatures likely rose too high for the cold-adapted species.

Scientists have outlined a series of challenges and opportunities presented in a necessary review of how microbiomes can be "banked" and preserved for generations to come.

Columbia researchers have uncovered an array of new genes that cause stillbirth, significantly increasing the understanding of the condition's genetic foundations.

Researchers from Skoltech, Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems have studied the genomes of some 200 strains of bacteria to determine which proteins in the ribosome, part of the key cell machinery, can be safely lost and why.

CNIO researchers pave the way for a future gene therapy to reverse pulmonary fibrosis associated with ageing.

A research team has decoded the full genome for the black mustard plant—research that will advance breeding of oilseed mustard crops and provide a foundation for improved breeding of wheat, canola and lentils.

A new study conducted in C. elegans, which appears in the journal Current Biology, identifies a genetic switch in brain cells that can toggle between sex-specific states when necessary, findings that question the idea of sex as a fixed property.