How cells preserve mitochondrial DNA quality across generations

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have discovered how mammalian cells prevent the gradual buildup of harmful mutations ...
William & Mary

Former W&M Alumna & New faculty member plumbs the depths of fast-track evolution

Evolution usually takes its time but, occasionally, sweeping changes can occur in just one generation. Instead of evolving the slow way—with genes gradually mutating until the organism is most fit to ...
Nature

Systematic large-scale study of the inheritance mode of Mendelian disorders provides new insight into human diseasome

One important piece of information about the human Mendelian disorders is the mode of inheritance. Recent studies of human genetic diseases on a large scale have provided many novel insights into the ...
Business Wire

GeneDx Continues its Leadership in Genomics Research, Refining Gene-Disease Relationships and Impacting Results of >22,000 Patients

Contributed nearly one quarter of all submissions to GeneMatcher and collaborated on more than 85 peer reviewed publications in 2024 STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GeneDx (Nasdaq: WGS), a leader in ...
Science Daily

Blame the mother's gene: Discovery for a blinding canine eye disease

A new gene for canine congenital eye disease has been identified. Defective RBP4 leads to vitamin A deficiency and abnormal eye development during pregnancy. The study defines a novel recessive mode ...
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Variable Modes of Inheritance of Morphometrical Traits in Hybrids between Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We investigated body-size inheritance in interspecific sterile hybrids by crossing a Drosophila simulans strain with 13 strains of Drosophila ...