For the past month, local basketball programs have teamed up to raise awareness and spread hope for 9-year-old Autumn and ...

The CRISPR-Cas9 system offers groundbreaking genome editing capabilities, yet off-target cleavage raises concerns about ...

In Europe alone, approximately 2 million people live with chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), and their incidence has ...

The SYNGAP1 gene, which supports the production of a protein called SynGAP (Synaptic Ras GTPase-Activating Protein), is known ...

Your genes play a huge role in what makes and shapes your entire existence. Since you inherit your genes from your parents, ...

There exists no ‘amyloid cabal’” in Alzheimer’s research, neurologist Dennis Selkoe writes in response to Charles Piller’s ...

The UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester announced Thursday it received a $35 million gift that aims to advance research to ...

The Rice lab of bioengineer Gang Bao and collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new gene-editing strategy that dramatically boosts the effectiveness of gene therapies in the ...

Researchers find a master epigenetic switch that activates silenced genes to compensate for their missing counterparts in a ...

Gene editing is already being used to treat a handful of rare genetic diseases; however, most therapies involve breaking or ...

By collecting continuous data on physical and behavioral patterns, smartwatches can generate what researchers call a “digital ...

An analysis of the genomes of nearly 6,000 Greenlandic people suggests that their Inuit ancestors rarely moved around after ...