Altering a mosquito's gut genes to make them spread antimalarial genes to the next generation of their species shows promise as an approach to curb malaria, suggests a preliminary study published ...

Altering a mosquito's gut genes to make them spread antimalarial genes to the next generation of their species shows promise as an approach to curb malaria. Altering a mosquito's gut genes to make ...

Millions struggle with depression and anxiety, often enduring long waits for effective treatment. Scientists in Sweden, ...

The post Obesity Risk Can Now Be Identified In Childhood Thanks To A Simple Genetic Test first on TwistedSifter. With over 40% of American adults considered obese, and that statistic alone accounting ...

Challenges in RNA-Seq analysis. (a) Commonly used normalization methods assume that only a small proportion of transcripts are differentially expressed between conditions (small, dashed inner circle ...

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today marks the launch of TeloYears, a new genetic test that reveals the cellular age encoded in a person’s DNA. Now available from the company founded by the ...

When does aging really begin? Two Northwestern University scientists now have a molecular clue. In a study of the transparent roundworm C. elegans, they found that adult cells abruptly begin their ...

A genetic risk for heart disease is far less predictive of problems than actual lifestyle risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes -- even among younger adults. In a ...

Currently, there are several hypotheses surrounding the disappearance of Neanderthals. While they all have at least some ...