Gene therapy represents a paradigm shift in modern medicine, offering unprecedented opportunities to combat diseases at their ...

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

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

From understanding hereditary diseases to predicting drug responses, sequencing helps researchers uncover the subtle language ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas ...

Your genes play a huge role in what makes and shapes your entire existence. Since you inherit your genes from your parents, you tend to share things like hair type or athletic ability. Unfortunately, ...

There are 1.5 million people with an intellectual disability (ID) in the UK and over half of these present with intellectual disability associated with either a rare genetic syndrome or a co-occurring ...

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

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

In 2019 an international team of researchers identified 109 genes that were associated in different combinations with eight ...

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