A great part of living in the 21st century is that if you have a device that connects to the internet, you have access to hundreds, if not thousands of experts who are often eager to share in-depth ...

Tautz et al. (2026): Beyond Mendel: a call to revisit the genotype–phenotype map through new experimental paradigms, Genetics Vol. 232, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyag024 ...

People often remark that allergies run in their family, but the genetic causes have remained unclear. Previous food allergy genetic research has relied upon broad but surface-level methods called ...

A recent study analyzed individuals from diverse backgrounds and identified various genetic clusters involved in a broad range of biological mechanisms that may help explain ancestry-associated ...

A growing body of genetic research now links the goosebumps people feel during a powerful song or a striking painting to inherited biological traits, not just personal taste. Multiple large-scale twin ...

Genetic data show that 14 psychiatric diagnoses cluster into five families of shared risk, explaining why conditions like depression and anxiety often occur together.

The interdisciplinary, research-oriented Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics program offers both MS and PhD degrees. The program provides a broad education-training program for graduate students ...

A study that analyzed the genetic code of a quarter of a million U.S. volunteers found more than 275 million entirely new variants that may help explain why some groups are more prone to disease than ...

A new study has provided new insights into the the genetic overlap among some psychiatric disorders, and can help explain why it’s not uncommon for several of these disorders to arise in the same ...

A landmark global study co‑led by Dalhousie researchers offers the clearest picture yet of anxiety’s biological roots, ...