The study focused on inherited retinal degenerations (IRDs), a group of genetic diseases that lead to progressive vision loss ...

When modern humans travelled from Asia to the Americas, traversing the Bering Strait for the first time, they were well prepared. That's because these travelers brought along an adaptive variant in ...

Humans have it. So does Drosophila. But not yeast. That "it" is a small pause at the start of gene activity—a brief molecular halt that may have helped life evolve from simple cells to complex animals ...

Dr. David Buchner is an accomplished geneticist and educator whose career spans more than two decades of research and leadership in human genetics, metabolic disease, and computational genomics. He ...