This video from National Geographic outlines some basic concepts in genetics for the layperson, as well as how people, or more specifically, Gregor Mendel began to work in this field of study using ...

How will genetics impact the practice of medicine? The traditional focus of medical genetics is on the diagnosis and management of disorders due to changes in single genes or chromosomes. Major ...

If the human genome project taught us anything, it was that genes are just the beginning of the 'how to build a body' story — otherwise identical twins with their identical genes really would be ...

DNA is the chemical that codes for proteins which determine our physical traits. This molecule is a double coil connected by cross pieces (called bases). There are four bases that can vary in sequence ...

Faculty Position in Clinical Genetics, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School: The Division of Genetics at Children’s Hospital Boston is seeking a clinical geneticist to join our growing ...

Hyderabad: The Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) has launched 'Gyandeep' in collaboration with Genetiks4U, an outreach project funded by India Biosciences and Kendriya Vidyalaya ...

More than 1,800 individuals carrying loss-of-function mutations in both copies of their genes, so-called "human knockouts," are described in the first major study to be published in Nature this week ...

Informed consent is the backbone of patient care. Genetic testing has long required patient consent and patients have had a "right not to know" the results. However, as 21st century medicine now ...

The transgenerational inheritance of epigenctic characters occur in plants. An epigenetic mutant has been found to inherit acquired traits ONLY under certain light conditions. This research will ...