Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks — chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

More than two in five U.S. adults have prediabetes, a condition marked by higher-than-normal blood sugar levels that often leads to type 2 diabetes. A new study finds that vitamin D may help delay or ...

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Genetics is fiendishly complex. We know this from decades of molecular biology, from the resulting studies on the sequencing and analysis of genomes and from our increasing knowledge of how genes ...

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Although large amounts of genomic data are available, it remains a challenge to reliably infer causal (i. e., regulatory) relationships among molecular phenotypes (such as gene expression), especially ...

Rapid evolution is central to the current antibiotic crisis. Sustainable treatments must thus take account of the bacteria’s potential for adaptation. We identified cellular hysteresis as a principle ...

Last weekend, a rather seismic op-ed appeared in the New York Times, and it was for a while one of the most popular pieces in the newspaper. It’s by David Reich, a professor of genetics at Harvard, ...

Evolution by Darwinian natural selection can not only shape how organisms survive and reproduce, but also affect transmission of genetic and other information between generations. Modifier-gene models ...

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