Mycoviruses—viruses that infect fungi—are emerging as important regulators of fungal chemistry, according to research by Favaretto, Varotto, Kondo and colleagues...

A healing colon does not simply switch genes on and off. Its cells appear to follow a complex daily timetable,...

A new review in Genes & Diseases describes how DNA-based technologies are moving medicine toward a future in which disease...

Psychosis has long resisted simple explanations. Its emergence is shaped by a shifting combination of inherited biology, developmental experience and...

A newly published review has identified the transcription factor FOXA2 as one of the central molecular coordinators linking pancreatic development...

The MYH9 gene is emerging as a critical biological switch at the intersection of cancer progression and inherited disease, according...

Sugarcane’s extraordinary genetic complexity has finally yielded one of its oldest biological secrets. A new study has resolved how certain...

Multiple sclerosis has long been understood as a disease in which immune cells attack the central nervous system, but the...

Malaria parasites in Ethiopia are carrying a more complex portfolio of drug-resistance mutations than surveillance systems based only on treatment...

A subtle chemical switch on histone proteins may determine whether DNA gathers into liquid-like droplets inside the cell, according to...