A landmark genome-wide study of nearly 600,000 individuals identifies 624 genetic signals for childhood adiposity, many of which act only in early life and point to childhood-specific brain circuits ...

A 563-patient genomic study from Peking University reveals how KMT2C/D loss-of-function alterations define a hypermutated, ...

DNA Typewriter and PEtracer reconstruct mouse cell lineages at high resolution, revealing when cell fates diverge during embryonic development.

Two research teams used genome editing to create detailed cell lineage maps of mouse embryos, tracing development up to the ...

DNA typewriter maps mouse embryo development to reveal disease origins Barcode trail tracks cell family trees to pinpoint ...

A red blood cell hauling oxygen is only a distant cousin of the neuron firing off impulses in your brain and the cell in your ...

Growing inside each of us is a cellular family tree. Every one of the 37 trillion cells in our body is generated from another ...

Genetic information may play an increasingly important role in the personalized preventive medicine of the future.

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of ...

The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded $1.3 million to the University of California San Diego to support an ambitious research project to map the complex three-dimensional structures formed by RNA ...

A streamlined tomato pangenome has exposed genetic switches that shape fruit size, flavor-related chemistry, and resistance to fungal disease. By combining genomic variation from a cultivated tomato ...

Population geneticist Sohini Ramachandran uses computational approaches and develops new techniques to explore human genetic variation and diversity.