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A new study unlocks the secrets of obesity, researchers identify rare gene variants and reveal new insights to pave the way for targeted excess weight treatment | Health

New research has identified six genes that play a central role in shaping personality traits and influencing health outcomes. These genes, which have been highly preserved throughout evolution, regulate emotional response, meaning perception, and adaptation to lifes challenges.

Study investigates the transcriptomic changes in human vascular smooth muscle cells exposed to spaceflight, revealing significant alterations in gene expression affecting cellular function and phenotype.

A Canadian-led study has identified genes which may be partially responsible for the development of cerebral palsy.

Take a puff of nicotine for the first time, and your DNA plays an important role, alongside social and environmental factors, in shaping what happens next.

The complex development of craniofacial skeletal structures and improve treatments for congenital craniofacial malformations.

Venki Ramakrishnan, recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, explores the science of aging.

A study assessed the effect of tobacco smoking and electronic cigarette (e-cigarettes) use on DNA methylation changes associated with carcinogenesis.

The central dogma proposed that genetic information predominantly transfers from DNA to RNA during gene expression to make a functional product protein.

Humans have many wonderful qualities, but we lack something that's a common feature among most animals with backbones: a tail. Exactly why that is has been something of a mystery.