Koala populations with low genetic diversity are actually recovering by "reshuffling" their genes to remove harmful mutations ...

The team, composed of Scripps Research Professor Nicholas Schork, a genomics researcher and director of biostatistics and bioinformatics with Scripps Translational Science Institute (a collaboration ...

Smithsonian researcher Sarah Johnson studies bison specimens to understand how the species’s genetic diversity changed after its decline ...

It's long been assumed that koalas in southern Australia are genetically unhealthy. A new study finds they're actually recovering, changing how scientists look at genetic risks.

A recent study published in Nature explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to better understand the how human genetic disruptions lead to a variety of diseases. For the study, a new ...

As a teenager just moved to Iowa from war-ravaged Germany in 1951, John M. Opitz, M.D., wanted to study developmental biology, but his “very Prussian” mother insisted he go to medical school instead.

James C. Schnable's pioneering genetics research got him recognized with the 2026 National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food ...

Rett syndrome is a rare developmental disorder, most often due to a mutation in the MECP2 gene on the X chromosome, but it’s not usually inherited. Advances in genetics have launched a new era in ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

And then help us understand, like, biologically what’s happening in the patient’s nervous system… Dr. Poduri: Yeah so, magnetic resonance Imaging, or MRI, really became, at the turn of the last ...

Some koalas may recover their genes after major population crashes. Growing koala populations may rebuild genetic strength over time.