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People who contract COVID-19 but never develop symptoms may have a genetic ace up their sleeve. They’re more than twice as likely as those who become symptomatic to carry a specific gene variation that helps them obliterate the virus, according to a new study led by UC San Francisco researchers.

Women diagnosed and treated for breast cancer have increased biological aging compared to women who remain free of breast cancer, according to a new study.

Researchers have found rare variants of genes known to be strongly associated with autism in 1% of individuals from the general population.

How do you study a predator with both camouflage and stealth that make it virtually invisible in the forest? Even jaguars poop! Researchers use isotopic analysis to map territories of jaguars in Belize.

A new study has analysed and tracked the spread of this bacterial disease within a vulnerable community, highlighting the importance of genomics in informing public health decisions.

Researchers characterize semi-extractable RNAs and create the first-ever data set that may decode RNA-driven phase separations.

A vaccine candidate that can protect children from Meningococcal group B, which can lead to meningitis, has progressed to clinical development.

By identifying genes in patients and testing their effects in fruit flies, researchers have found new genes that contribute to hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a rare, life-threatening heart disease that occurs in infants.

Hairworms are missing the tiny “hairs” responsible for cell movement, filtration, and sensing that every other known animal has.

A pair of new studies explains why babies get so many common respiratory infections and identifies a specialized cluster of immune cells found only in babies that help them cope with new pathogens.