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

The pathology of mental disorders is complex. Researchers can’t just attribute mental disorders to one or a few single mutations in a gene or protein — there are too many factors at play. After all, ...

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At the turn of the century, the biomedical research community saw a landmark global effort, when scientists built a reference human genome sequence to better understand the genes underlying health and ...

The contribution of genetics to the variability in people’s metabolism has remained largely unknown. This is, in part, because genetic studies of human metabolism have been limited in scale and ...

Researchers have mapped 30 million cells to create a definitive atlas of the human neocortex. This blueprint reveals how human brain development differs from other mammals and provides a roadmap for ...

A landmark research paper for the first time maps the genetics of how individual regions of the brain age—and why some of ...

Scientists reveal a hidden second layer of human DNA, showing how genome folding controls genes and influences disease development.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A California company predicts it will soon be able to sequence an entire human gene map in four minutes, for just $1,000. Sign up here. Pacific Biosciences says its new ...