RNA interference using small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) has become a mainstay of functional gene characterization and has ...

Genetic algorithms borrow their name and principles from biological evolution, but can they help researchers discover the fundamentals of life? Evolution is one of the most widely known theories in ...

Up to 40% of rare diseases show facial alterations that enable researchers to identify some pathologies and they can even help them to establish an early diagnosis. Historically, the visual evaluation ...

Developing high-yielding, nutritious and climate-resilient crops is vital to safeguard the future of global food production.

In a recent study published in Cell Reports, researchers identified look-alike humans, who were genetically unrelated, using facial recognition (FR) algorithms for multi-omics studies. Historically, ...

A new breakthrough from researchers at Houston's Rice University could unlock the genetic components that determine several human diseases, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Alzheimer's disease ...

Genetic theory predicts that directional selection should deplete additive genetic variance for traits closely related to fitness, and may favor the maintenance of alleles with antagonistically ...

This paper reconstructs the history of the introduction and use of iterative algorithms in conservation biology in the 1980s and early 1990s in order to prioritize areas for protection as nature ...