The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen ...

Forty years ago, a postdoctoral researcher named James McGrath who would go on to spend more than three decades as a clinical geneticist and research scientist at Yale, made a discovery that advanced ...

By Marilena Tapaki*, Genetic Counsellor, Medicover Genetics, CyprusWith personalised medicine reshaping modern healthcare, genetic counselling has become a vital service. Advances in genetics furnish ...

Parents pass their genes down to their kids, with a child inheriting about 50% of their genome from each parent. But there is another kind of genetic code known as the epigenome that can also be ...

Hair genetics can come from either parent, and multiple genes can determine hair traits, such as color, texture, and growth. Genes can also affect hair loss. Although it can run in families, this is ...

Did you know that the scientist who discovered the hidden genetic code in human beings is nothing but a monk who failed to impress his mentor two times with his performance? Gregory Mendel did not use ...

Surprise albino birth: A white, pink-eyed wallaby joey appeared at The Little Zoo despite both parents having brown coats, illustrating recessive inheritance. Genetic mechanism: Albinism in wallabies ...