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Genetics
Genetics: the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms. It is generally considered a field of biology, but intersects frequently with many other life sciences and is strongly linked with the study of information systems. The father of genetics is Gregor Mendel, a late 19th-century scientist and Augustinian friar. Mendel studied "trait inheritance", patterns in the way traits are handed down from parents to offspring. He observed that organisms (pea plants) inherit traits by way of discrete "units of inheritance". This term, still used today, is a somewhat ambiguous definition of what is referred to as a gene.
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FEB 18, 2025Genetics & Genomics
Muscular dystrophy is a disease caused by a genetic mutation. The muscles of muscular dystrophy patients weaken..Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 17, 2025Clinical & Molecular DX
Preeclampsia is a complication that arises in 5-8% of pregnancies. It causes high blood pressure (hypertension) and may ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 16, 2025Microbiology
Bacterial pathogens can cause serious infections. So many of them are becoming resistant to the effects of antibiotics t ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 12, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
There are many molecules with therapeutic potential, but it can be a challenge to deliver them to the right places at th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 10, 2025Genetics & Genomics
The human genome can have some quirky features, like copy number variation. When this happens, an individual carries, or ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 07, 2025Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have linked roughly five percent of adult cancers to mutations in genes called FOCAD and TTC37. Another gene ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 03, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have discovered that a crucial protein found in plants, called auxin response factor (ARF) first arose about ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 02, 2025Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have successfully engineered a mouse with two fathers that went onto survive until adulthood. Researchers hav ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 28, 2025Clinical & Molecular DX
Some psychiatric disorders have many overlapping symptoms, which can make it very challenging to diagnose a specific dis ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 28, 2025Genetics & Genomics
Transcription factors are proteins that can bind to DNA and affect the expression of genes; some are known as master reg ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 27, 2025Genetics & Genomics
Ancient viruses are embedded everywhere in the human genome. It's thought that about 8% of the human genome...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 24, 2025Genetics & Genomics
Females carry two X chromosomes, after inheriting one from each parent. In order to stop serious problems from arising, ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 23, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have been studying this compound as a potential treatment for a rare neurological disorder, but it could appl ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 21, 2025Clinical & Molecular DX
Scientists have provided a diagnosis for 500 European patients who did not know their condition...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 20, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
The expression of genes has to be carefully regulated in cells; active genes give cells their identity and ability to fu ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 20, 2025Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have made a major breakthrough in our understanding of Huntington's disease. This genetic disorder has long ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 17, 2025Genetics & Genomics
Genetic sequencing has gone through several advances. A major breakthrough came when scientists began breaking the billi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 14, 2025Clinical & Molecular DX
Worldwide, asthma is the most common chronic respiratory illness that affects children, particularly Puerto Rican and Bl ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 13, 2025Genetics & Genomics
Some missense mutations are known to cause disease. But what about the thousands of other missense mutations that have u ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 08, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
Science has shown that variations in our genes can have a major impact on our health and lifespan. But so can diet and e ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 07, 2025Microbiology
Bacterial cells have lots of interesting abilities. They can pass a kind of memory onto offspring; easily share genes; a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 07, 2025Clinical & Molecular DX
New technologies like wastewater surveillance have enabled public health officials to monitor the spread of infectious d ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 06, 2025Genetics & Genomics
Can a kind of genetic favoritism explain why some people carry disease-causing mutations, but do not have a disease?Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 06, 2025Earth & The Environment
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are already directly responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people every y ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
FEB 18, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Muscular dystrophy is a disease caused by a genetic mutation. The muscles of muscular dystrophy patients weaken..
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 17, 2025
Clinical & Molecular DX
Preeclampsia is a complication that arises in 5-8% of pregnancies. It causes high blood pressure (hypertension) and may
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 16, 2025
Microbiology
Bacterial pathogens can cause serious infections. So many of them are becoming resistant to the effects of antibiotics t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 12, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
There are many molecules with therapeutic potential, but it can be a challenge to deliver them to the right places at th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 10, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
The human genome can have some quirky features, like copy number variation. When this happens, an individual carries, or
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 07, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have linked roughly five percent of adult cancers to mutations in genes called FOCAD and TTC37. Another gene
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 03, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have discovered that a crucial protein found in plants, called auxin response factor (ARF) first arose about
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 02, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have successfully engineered a mouse with two fathers that went onto survive until adulthood. Researchers hav
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 28, 2025
Clinical & Molecular DX
Some psychiatric disorders have many overlapping symptoms, which can make it very challenging to diagnose a specific dis
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 28, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Transcription factors are proteins that can bind to DNA and affect the expression of genes; some are known as master reg
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 27, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Ancient viruses are embedded everywhere in the human genome. It's thought that about 8% of the human genome...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 24, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Females carry two X chromosomes, after inheriting one from each parent. In order to stop serious problems from arising,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 23, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have been studying this compound as a potential treatment for a rare neurological disorder, but it could appl
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 21, 2025
Clinical & Molecular DX
Scientists have provided a diagnosis for 500 European patients who did not know their condition...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 20, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
The expression of genes has to be carefully regulated in cells; active genes give cells their identity and ability to fu
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 20, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have made a major breakthrough in our understanding of Huntington's disease. This genetic disorder has long
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 17, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Genetic sequencing has gone through several advances. A major breakthrough came when scientists began breaking the billi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 14, 2025
Clinical & Molecular DX
Worldwide, asthma is the most common chronic respiratory illness that affects children, particularly Puerto Rican and Bl
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 13, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Some missense mutations are known to cause disease. But what about the thousands of other missense mutations that have u
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 08, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Science has shown that variations in our genes can have a major impact on our health and lifespan. But so can diet and e
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 07, 2025
Microbiology
Bacterial cells have lots of interesting abilities. They can pass a kind of memory onto offspring; easily share genes; a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 07, 2025
Clinical & Molecular DX
New technologies like wastewater surveillance have enabled public health officials to monitor the spread of infectious d
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 06, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Can a kind of genetic favoritism explain why some people carry disease-causing mutations, but do not have a disease?
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 06, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are already directly responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people every y
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch