A wave of spatial transcriptomics studies has produced gene-expression atlases that span entire organs and whole organisms, ...

Our brain is arguably the organ that most distinguishes humans from other primates. Its exceptional size, complexity and capabilities far exceed those of any other species on Earth. Yet humans share ...

Erica Periandri and Gabor Egervari, from Washington University in St. Louis, led a study to explore how alcohol exposure in ...

In back-to-back studies published in Nature, researchers from Purdue University and Columbia University report a naturally ...

Genetics is the study of genes and how they influence characteristics and health. Through a variety of technological methods, environmental factors, and lifestyle choices, it is possible to alter some ...

What if you could flip a genetic switch to silence a gene, then turn it back on with a simple drug? For researchers, gene-switch tools offer that kind of control—and a new system called Cyclone may ...

A genetic variant carried by at least one-fifth of the population may do far more than raise the odds of developing Alzheimer ...