Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) is one of the most common heritable connective tissue disorders. Early estimates have reported that this genetic disorder affects at least one in 5,000 ...

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The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen ...

A genetic technology known as a gene drive could help prevent malaria by spreading genes in wild mosquitoes that stop them transmitting the parasite. Tests in a lab in Tanzania have now confirmed that ...

Forty years ago, a postdoctoral researcher named James McGrath who would go on to spend more than three decades as a clinical geneticist and research scientist at Yale, made a discovery that advanced ...

Plants face tough swings in their soil environment. Heavy rain can wash minerals away. Dry periods can block nutrient flow. These shifts hit crops hardest when key micronutrients drop. Boron sits high ...

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at RCSI chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus. Somewhere between the grocery lists taped to my fridge and the snacks I ...

Despite the long history of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (PsA), until recently, little had been known of their underlying genetics and pathogenesis. Without this knowledge, rational clinical ...

Behind every unexplained medical condition is a patient hoping for clarity and understanding. For people with suspected inborn errors of immunity (IEIs), genetic testing can facilitate individually ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers developed a novel approach to infer parent-of-origin (PofO) of alleles without parental genomes. Genome-wide ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...