It turns out that the answer was no: Your dog’s genes don’t predict its behavior, at least not in the simplistic way popular doggy DNA tests often claim.

I'd say if you think about it this almost has to be the case. Closely related species often behave in similar ways. Clearly if a large amount of difference in genetics were required in order to ...

Testing for genetic mutations in urine can detect bladder cancer years before the disease shows clinical symptoms, new research has shown. The study, by researchers from France, Iran and the United ...

Challenges in RNA-Seq analysis. (a) Commonly used normalization methods assume that only a small proportion of transcripts are differentially expressed between conditions (small, dashed inner circle ...

A “simple” genetic test for newborn babies that will help prevent deafness caused by a common antibiotic is to be rolled out ...

It’s difficult to respond to Eric Olenick’s recent letter because it is so fundamentally wrong. It is so inaccurate, in fact, that it seems to have been written entirely as a provocation rather than ...