Background Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is strongly implicated in the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) but whether ...

UC San Diego biologists have identified the genetic switch that added a ninth photoreceptor to butterfly eyes, revealing how ...

Researchers have identified SNI1/NSE5 as a cold-sensitive brake on class II meiotic crossovers in Arabidopsis, revealing how low temperature redirects genetic recombination toward chromosome ends.

Scientists accidentally discovered a microscopic organism with a genetic code that breaks a rule researchers thought was ...

A new analysis tracking three decades of public discussion about GM finds economic arguments have increasingly crowded out cultural and ethical questions.

Population geneticist Sohini Ramachandran uses computational approaches and develops new techniques to explore human genetic variation and diversity.

A research team has mapped genetic variation underlying catechin composition and galloylation across a diverse collection of tea plants. By ...

A research team has mapped genetic variation underlying catechin composition and galloylation across a diverse collection of ...

Scientists may have found a clue to one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the origin of life: how fragile RNA molecules could gather and survive before cells existed. New research shows that RNA is ...

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Smoking is one of the biggest contributors to lung cancer, but anywhere from 10-20% of cases in the U.S. each year are diagnosed in people who never smoked. In a new study published in Science, ...