Microbial changes in the gut contribute to a patient’s ability to slim down after gastric bypass surgery.
Microbial changes in the gut contribute to a patient’s ability to slim down after gastric bypass surgery.
International collaboration doubles the number of genetic regions associated with breast, prostate, and ovarian cancers.
Researchers identify a protein involved in the chromosomal disorder that could explain its characteristic learning deficits.
Genetics experts argue that patients should be told about dangerous variants in their DNA that show up incidentally during sequencing.
Venom-based drugs for pain; microbes in the deep ocean; altruistic, suicidal bacteria; a call for open access; clinical sequencing; the newest genomes
Researchers show that a bacterium’s self-sacrifice can benefit its community, even when the members are not strongly related.
A presidential bioethics commission lays out the framework for testing the anthrax vaccine in children.
The passenger pigeon was hunted to extinction 99 years ago, but researchers are planning to use DNA from museum specimens to bring the bird back to life.
Next-generation sequencing diagnostics are already being used, and patients are ready.
Researchers find remarkably active bacteria in the Mariana Trench, where they live under pressure 1,000 times greater than at the surface.