Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

Visio in Microsoft 365 is a superb tool for creating custom diagrams to illustrate concepts that are difficult to explain through text. Here’s how to use it. It’s often much easier to convey ...

Oxytocin receptor (Oxtr) signaling influences complex social behaviors in diverse species, including social monogamy in prairie voles. How Oxtr regulates specific components of social attachment ...

Genetics is the branch of science concerned with genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms. It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring, including ...

Background SLE is a systemic autoimmune disease with a large number of common risk gene variants, but several rare gene ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — Despite new medication, cystic fibrosis often leads to permanent lung damage. Researchers have discovered that the disease causes changes in the immune system early in life ...

Combined differentially expressed genes and expression quantitative trait loci analysis was conducted to find key driver genes in SLE pathogenesis. Conclusion This work elucidated the potential ...

Complex diseases like cancer and heart disease are caused by the interplay of many factors: the variants of genes we inherit ... such that LD patterns and allele frequency differences do not come into ...