A recent study finds that certain psychiatric disorders have considerable genetic overlap. But these genes aren’t the whole ...

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Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...

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Genetic circuit engineering is the synthesis of unnatural DNA segments encoding protein or RNA molecules that control each other’s levels. Genetic circuit engineering is the bottom-up, local approach ...

Population genetics is the study of the genetic composition of populations, including distributions and changes in genotype and phenotype frequency in response to the processes of natural selection, ...