(Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Researchers are beginning to realize that even vastly different psychiatric ...

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Studies of genetics conducted in yeast cells, human neurons, mice or other model systems often reveal networks of genes that ...

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Scientists at a NY university say they can bring back the near extinct American chestnut tree, wiped out a century ago, ...

Scientists at the University of California San Diego have uncovered how genetic mutations cause a rare group of inherited neuromuscular disorders and identified promising new strategies to correct ...

The immune system depends on molecular alarms that detect danger inside cells. One of these alarms is STING, short for ...

A toddler’s activity levels are influenced by genetic differences, with some of the same genetic markers also linked to Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), according to new research ...

Getting it over the finish line was a labor of love—and now, more than five years after her death, the lab of former Sloan ...

Scientists pieced together the genetic history of Acinetobacter baumannii — a notoriously stubborn hospital pathogen — using ...

Fourteen members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships.