Researchers have significantly expanded the catalogue of known human genetic variation. The resulting datasets, shared in two back-to-back publications in the journal Nature, constitute what may be ...

Researchers still do not have a comprehensive picture of the factors that influence gene expression in human cancers. Understanding gene expression in cancer is important because it can reveal how the ...

Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is a debilitating, progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects about 7 million Americans, a figure that is expected to nearly double by 2050, according to the ...

A watercolor artist’s interpretation of the relationship between the human genome and gut mycobiome. Created by Amy Bean, watercolor journalist and mom of first author Emily Van Syoc. Clinicians’ ...