Bipolar disorder is a complex psychiatric disorder, characterized by fluctuations between episodes of (hypo)mania and depression. It is estimated to affect around 40 to 50 million people worldwide.

Investigating context-specific genetic associations can lead to deeper understanding of the biological mechanisms underlying human traits. With this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Nature ...

Systems biology is the study of biological systems whose behaviour cannot be reduced to the linear sum of their parts’ functions. Systems biology does not necessarily involve large numbers of ...

Prions, for example, violate the central dogma. Prions are proteins that can change shape and pass that new shape on to other proteins, sometimes giving cells useful traits and in other cases, causing ...

Humans walk upright, carry brains three times larger than those of our closest relatives, and possess slender, distinctly ...

Emmeline Hill was one of the first to study how genes influence horse traits. Now, she uses genetics to improve the welfare ...

The research team led by Professor Jongmin Kim from the Department of Life Sciences at POSTECH, along with graduate students Hyunseop Goh and Seungdo Choi, has successfully developed the 'Synthetic ...

Mo Khalil is the Hok Lam and Kathleen Kam Wong Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences ...

A Mendelian randomization study of 191 brain imaging phenotypes and 1,270 stroke patients finds genetic evidence that ...

As genetics and biotechnology become increasingly important in school curricula, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has ...

For a long time, scientists have suspected that stuttering — a common speech condition that affects an estimated 1 in every 100 people — could be heritable. Despite how common it is, it's still a ...

A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers stumbled upon a bizarre genetic code in a microscopic pond organism.