Now they will be able to locate genes for any desired trait, improving quality, nutritional value and disease resistance.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

Mister Boas believed that the environment people grow up in -- not family genes caused most cultural differences among people.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

Myriad Genetics received patents for methods to identify women with genes that create a high risk of breast cancer.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

The American food company Mars took the lead in paying for mapping the genes of the Forastero cocoa tree.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

The viruses appear to harm the bees' ability to use their genes to produce proteins needed to fight infections.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Genes can influence many things, from whom we look like to what we eat to possible treatments for diseases.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

They hope studying these genes more closely could help in development of new treatments for the disease, and possibly a cure.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

In fact,Science magazine recognized the discovery of "genes for mental illness" as the number two "Breakthrough of the Year."

VOA: special.2009.06.24

The researchers say that about two thousand of tropicalis' genes are similar to human genes linked to cancer, asthma and heart disease.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

Recent studies also support a theory that a combination of genes is linked to the development of lupus.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

She says combining many different genes into one plant without genetic engineering requires a lot of plant breeding.

VOA: special.2011.02.22

Researchers in the United States say drinking a lot of alcohol over a short period may influence genes involved in bone formation.

VOA: special.2010.08.31

To make that genome, the researchers replaced all the natural genetic material in a bacterial cell with a synthetic set of genes.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

The researchers added carbonic anhydrase genes to plants that do not react to higher levels of carbon dioxide.

VOA: special.2010.01.26