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Scientists have discovered new genes that link obesity to sex and age. In a study published in the journal Cell Genomics, scientists outline how the genes…

Margaret DeAngelis runs a lab at the University at Buffalo that's home to a reputable eye bank that holds promising keys to preventing and treating conditions that rob human eyesight.

Scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) are delving deep into the non-coding genome to unravel the complex genetics that underlie blood pressure regulation and hypertension (high blood pressure) – the leading cause of cardiovascular disease affecting 1.25 billion people worldwide.

The first human genome, which has served as the reference until now, was released approximately 20 years ago. It was a landmark accomplishment that had a huge impact on biomedical research and changed the way scientists study human biology. But it was based on just a few individuals and did not capture the full genetic diversity of the human population. “Since this reference has been at the core of most genomic analysis, it leads to a bias and we might miss important things happening in regions of the human genome that are not present in the reference,” says Guillaume Bourque, a professor ...

Research from the Whitehead Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has thrown new light on the influence of the X chromosome on sex differences.