An opportunistic human pathogen makes itself at home on old oaks. At one point or another, most people have played host to the common yeast...
Guest author Amir Teicher discusses how the concept of “genetic load” traces its roots back to eugenic thinking, as described in his recent Perspectives article...
Art & CultureGenetics JournalHistory of GeneticsPopulation Genetics
Machine learning and access to ever-expanding databases improves genomic prediction of human traits. In theory, a scientist could predict your height using just your genome...
BioinformaticsComplex Traits & Quantitative GeneticsData & DatabasesGenetics JournalGenomicsHeredityHuman Evolution and Variation
Study of huge Ancestry.com pedigree suggests assortative mating may have inflated previous estimates of life span heritability. Although long life tends to run in families,...
Complex Traits & Quantitative GeneticsGenetics JournalHuman Evolution and Variation
Newly uncovered newspaper articles shed light on Mendel’s motivations. Gregor Mendel is considered by many to be the father of genetics. Yet, because his work...
Mitochondria cell-autonomously regulate the secretion of neuropeptides in C. elegans. Neurons are hard-working cells that need a lot of energy to do their jobs, so...
Holes in the plasma membrane trigger the activation of the Torso receptor tyrosine kinase. As a general rule, cells don’t do well when holes are...
Food-deprivation inhibits the stress-induced sleep response in C. elegans. For many animals, the essential physiological drives of sleep and food are intimately linked. You might...
Tissue culture causes heritable methylation changes in plants. Tissue culture is a useful tool for plant scientists and horticulturalists in large part because it allows...
GC content alone is associated with distinct functional classes of human enhancers. Because enhancers can be located hundreds of kilobases away from their target genes,...
BioinformaticsCell BiologyData & DatabasesGenetics JournalImmune System
