Nature and nurture both determine how likely you are to develop a particular disease. Hiroshi Watanabe/DigitalVision via Getty Images Sitting in my doctor’s examination room, I was surprised when she ...

Our bodies follow a natural 24-hour cycle known as the circadian rhythm that influences everything from sleep to metabolism. While scientists have long known that certain core circadian clock genes ...

Infants of mothers with diabetes have a three- to five-fold increased risk of congenital heart defects. Such developmental defects are likely caused by a combination of genetic and environmental ...

Scientists have discovered an interaction between genes that increases the risk of developing a type of alopecia. Scientists have discovered an interaction between genes that increases the risk of ...

One of the most immediate impacts of AI in medical genetics lies in diagnosis, particularly for rare and complex genetic ...

Scientists studying thousands of rats discovered that gut bacteria are shaped by both personal genetics and the genetics of ...

Genetic factors account for much of the variation in personality traits across the lifespan. Shared upbringing plays a smaller role in adult personality than many clinical models assume.

When two homozygous plant lines with different characteristics are crossed, the resulting offspring are often more robust and productive than their parents. This phenomenon is called heterosis. It can ...

Is complex social behavior genetically determined? Yes, as a team of biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf ...