Researchers at the Icelandic biotechnology company DeCode Genetics Incorporated said they found a gene that can double the risk of type 2 diabetes, a disease that affects at least 171 million people ...

When two homozygous plant lines with different characteristics are crossed, the resulting offspring are often more robust and productive than their parents. This phenomenon is called heterosis. It can ...

A new computational machine learning method developed by computational biologists can help researchers discover spatial patterns of gene expression in diseased tissue. In disease research, it's ...