From eye color to whether cilantro tastes like soap, genetic variability influences many factors in a person’s life. These inherited differences can also determine a person’s risk of developing a ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* pre-print server, researchers demonstrated how narrow-sense heritability (h 2) leads to variability in the susceptibility to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 ...

Even a single gene, reshuffled or regulated in new ways, can fuel repeated bursts of evolutionary innovation, according to a recent study of wheatear birds. A study was recently published in the ...