The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients ...

Most cases of Moebius syndrome are spontaneous, with no family history and no known genetic cause. In certain rare cases, the disorder has been associated with defects in chromosomes 3, 10, and 13.

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

(Nanowerk News) Nearly three years ago University of California San Diego researchers announced the world’s first CRISPR-Cas9 genetic editing-based approach to controlling inheritance in mammals. The ...

Gene drive — the ability to shortcut genetic inheritance by propelling a gene throughout a population — has been demonstrated in principle for the first time in mammals. UC San Diego scientists ...

Research on Tourette’s indicates that the condition is strongly influenced by inherited genetic factors, with environmental factors also contributing to its development. Tourette syndrome is a ...

Humans have been tinkering with evolution for millennia, breeding plants and animals to favor the traits we want, but new research might make the process a bit more direct. Biologists at the ...