Sometimes, in genetics, two wrongs do make a right. A research team recently showed that two harmful genetic variants, when occurring together in a gene, can restore function—proving a decades-old ...

There are many sleep phenotypes, which reflect the duration and intensity of sleep, as well as its circadian and homeostatic regulation. In flies, mice and humans, at least ten genes have either been ...

LINE-1 (L1), Alu and SVA elements belong to the non-long terminal repeat retrotransposon class of transposable elements, and they account for approximately one-third of the human genome. L1, Alu and ...