Genetics

Quantitative models of resistance evolution We developed mathematical models of resistance evolution that described the response of a…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Some of the most harmful genetic changes in cancer are also the hardest to…

120 A pioneering partnership between the University of the West Indies (UWI) and global pharmaceutical firm EarlyHealth Group…

Male sea spider carrying egg cases preserved in osmium tetroxide. Credit: Shana K. Goffredi This week, medical researchers…

UW–Madison researchers studied smooth muscle cells like these, derived from induced pluripotent stem cells, to show that long-mysterious…

Schnittger L, Rodriguez AE, Florin-Christensen M, Morrison DA. Babesia: a world emerging. Infect Genet Evol. 2012;8:1788–809. Article Google…

Two species of worms have retained remarkably similar patterns in the way they switch their genes on and…

Back in 2008, neurovirologist Renée Douville observed something weird in the brains of people who’d died of the…

With DNA extracted from the body’s remains, researchers have reconstructed the face of a woman who lived approximately…

Study participants We analysed data from 1120 clinically diagnosed and 910 prodromal Parkinson’s disease (PD) individuals enrolled in…

Computational tool exposes hidden cancer DNA changes that may drive treatment resistance