Definition: Gene expression is the process by which a cell turns the information in a gene into a functional product, such as an RNA molecule or a protein. In simple terms: gene expression is how a ...

Gene therapy represents one of medicine’s most ambitious attempts to treat disease at its root cause by altering the genetic code itself. The approach works by recovering the functions of critical ...

This post is a review of The Social Genome: The New Science Of Nature and Nurture. By Dalton Conley. W.W. Norton & Company. 292 pp. $29.99. A breakthrough in socio-genomics, the polygenic index (PGI) ...

A team at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has reported a new artificial-intelligence framework designed to model how genes co-occur and function across diverse biological settings.

The brain is a special organ, and immune cells there called microglia work to repair damage and maintain the health of neural networks. About ten percent of brain cells are estimated to be microglia, ...

Most genes are ancient and shared across species. But a small subset of genes are relative newcomers, spontaneously emerging from stretches of DNA that once encoded nothing at all. Now, after nearly a ...