Researchers from Radboud University Medical Center and University of Basel have discovered new genetic causes of inherited blindness. Their study, published in Nature Genetics, shows that changes in ...

A genetic difference carried by nearly one in three people may increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and lung fibrosis by ...

A newly identified recessive neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) linked to variants in the RNU2-2 gene may be among the most common genetic causes of intellectual disability and epilepsy, new research ...

Traumatic brain injury is a major cause of chronic neurological impairment worldwide, and there is evidence that both genetic and environmental variation contribute to the likelihood of recovery.

The origins of human height — the distance from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head while standing on a flat surface and fully extended — have long held strong interest 1. From the ...

In cells, there is a careful coordination of activity among molecules. Genes have to be expressed in the right cells at the right times, and the proteins that genes encode for must be properly folded ...