For millennia, evolution has intrigued many great thinkers, prompting questions about how new traits emerge as species adapt over time. Then, attention shifted to natural selection and the inheritance ...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterised by profound alterations in gene activity across both central and peripheral tissues. Advances in high-resolution transcriptomic technologies have ...

What happens when good genes go bad? What kinds of mutations create "lethal genes," and how are they passed on? Lethal genes can be recessive, as in the aforementioned mouse experiments. Lethal genes ...