The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen ...

Clinicians' ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing to disease risk. A study published September 2 nd in the open-access journal ...

Currently, there are more than 157,100 species listed on the IUCN Red List, with more than 44,000 species threatened with extinction, including 41% of amphibians, 36% of reef building corals, 34% of ...

1 The extinction vortex, is genetic variation related to extinction?; 2 How to measure genetic variation; 3 Inbreeding, geographic subdivision, and gene flow; 4 Genetic diversity in changing ...

The human genome is organised in 46 chromosomes, where all but the x and y chromosomes in men are present in two copies. This means that a person with a faulty gene on one chromosome most often has a ...

A large-scale genomic study of koalas across eastern Australia has found that populations that went through severe ...

This multidisciplinary project integrates computational biology, structural modelling, population genomics, and AI. It will provide new mechanistic insights into how coding variation and PTMs ...

A new synthesis finds that common epilepsies are driven by thousands of tiny-effect genetic variants, most still ...