From eye color to whether cilantro tastes like soap, genetic variability influences many factors in a person’s life. These inherited differences can also determine a person’s risk of developing a ...

The genome differs from person to person in thousands of positions. In some cases, this means that proteins have a different building block in certain ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* pre-print server, researchers demonstrated how narrow-sense heritability (h 2) leads to variability in the susceptibility to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 ...

Even a single gene, reshuffled or regulated in new ways, can fuel repeated bursts of evolutionary innovation, according to a recent study of wheatear birds. A study was recently published in the ...

As climate change accelerates, plants face mounting pressure to adapt to shifting ecosystems and environmental conditions. This challenge is especially urgent for crops—plants resilient to drought and ...