genetics & genomics

Researchers can now explain more than a quarter of the variability in human stature.

Researchers solve the mystery of 15-year-old mutant ferns with disrupted sex determination.

The plant Lophophytum pilfers mitochondrial genes from the species it parasitizes.

Three methods identify and activate silent bacterial gene clusters to uncover new drugs

Instrumental in launching Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system, Elliot Meyerowitz has since driven the use of computational modeling to study developmental biology.

CalTech researcher Elliot Meyerowitz describes how plant genetics influences growth and productivity.

The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics calls on scientists and health care providers to engage in public discussion about the ethical issues involved in genome editing. 

A sequencing blitz on the tomato genome reveals the genes that contribute most to tastiness.

Researchers generate an organism that can replicate artificial base pairs indefinitely.

A cell phone–based microscope can identify mutations in tumor tissue and image products of DNA sequencing reactions.

Foamy-like endogenous retroviruses may have emerged more than 450 million years ago, according to an analysis.

Researchers describe how gene expression in different human brain regions is altered with age.

The Asian honeybee should have been crippled by low genetic diversity, but thanks to natural selection it thrived.

After initially discovering that DNA methylation represses transcription, Howard Cedar continues to explore how the epigenetic mark regulates gene expression.

Plants grown in dry soil produce offspring that are hardier in drought conditions, and DNA methylation appears responsible. 

Eukaryotes prevent secondary RNA structures called G-quadruplexes, commonly observed in vitro, from forming in the cell. 

A test tube-based genome-labeling technique has been brought under the microscope.

Three techniques for identifying the collection of maternal and paternal genes silenced in offspring

Meet the researchers working to untangle the mystery of a Missouri home filled with bones by bringing cutting-edge technologies into the crime lab.

See how researchers visualize regions of active genes.