Genetics

Genetics

Genetic variant protects against rash of autoimmune diseases

A natural tweak in the TYK2 protein strikes a balance between weak and overactive immune systems.

Genetics

Protective genetic variant may offer a path to future autoimmune therapies

A natural tweak in the TYK2 protein strikes a balance between weak and overactive immune systems.

Genetics

Ancient hookups gave chimps a smidge of bonobo DNA

Genetic evidence suggests bonobos and chimpanzees interbred after becoming separate species.

Genetics

HIV came to NYC at least a decade before virus ID’d

DNA analysis of early viral strains tracks U.S. debut to early ’70s

Genetics

DNA data offer evidence of unknown extinct human relative

Melanesians may carry genetic evidence of a previously unknown extinct human relative.

Animals

Maps show genetic diversity in mammals, amphibians around the world

Maps of genetic diversity within mammal and amphibian species provide a baseline for understanding the effects of human activity and climate change on animals.

Genetics

Zika disrupts cellular processes to impair brain development

Discoveries about how Zika virus slows brain cell development could lead to treatments.

Genetics

Readers question the biology of alcoholism and more

Alcoholism-linked genes, making better corneas and more in reader feedback.

Genetics

Big biological datasets map life’s networks

Expanding from genomics to multi-omics means stretching data capacity, but it may lead to a future of early diagnosis, personalized medicine and hardy crops.

Genetics

‘Three-parent babies’ explained

Several in vitro techniques can produce babies with three biological parents.

Genetics

How gene editing is changing what a lab animal looks like

What makes a good animal model? New techniques bring opportunities and challenges to model organisms.

Animals

Hot and spicy pain signals get blocked in naked mole-rats

Naked mole-rats have a protein that interrupts pain signal.