People often remark that allergies run in their family, but the genetic causes have remained unclear. Previous food allergy genetic research has relied upon broad but surface-level methods called ...

Segun Fatumo discusses how he is working towards a true global genomics framework and strengthening African research capacity ...

Medical researchers conducted the largest-ever genome-wide association study of all-cause dementia, finding substantial genetic overlap with vascular dementia. In landmark research, scientists at The ...

Of 14 metabolites identified, 2 appeared to have “robust” causal relationships with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Fourteen metabolites appeared to have a causal relationship with idiopathic pulmonary ...

Background Idiopathic achalasia (IA) is characterised by the degeneration of neurons in the myenteric plexus leading to an irreversible impaired oesophageal function. Although immune-mediated ...

In two new studies on 28,000 individuals, researchers are able to show that genetic variants in 11 regions of the human ...

About two-thirds of people with Alzheimer’s disease are women, yet due to the challenges in studying X chromosomes, a genetic foundation for this has been difficult to uncover. Now, two large ...

Eggplant is a globally important vegetable crop, yet its genetic complexity has long limited efforts to improve yield, quality, and stress ...