Ruby Tsang summarises a recent longitudinal study of trajectories of inflammation in youth and risk of mental and ...

According to the latest study from BCC Research, "Rare Disease Diagnostics: Technologies and Global Markets" is projected to increase from $21.6 billion in 2024 to $34.7 billion by the end of 2029, at ...

"The first thing a woman can do to raise a smart child is to breastfeed," says geneticist Ricki Lewis, author of The Forever ...

Human genes that encode proteins often contain non-coding segments known as introns. Removing introns is crucial for the proper expression of genetic information. Understanding how our cells ...

In human cells, only a small proportion of the information written in genes is used to produce proteins. How does the cell select this information? A large molecular machine called the spliceosome ...

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

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 ...

The risk of developing alcohol use disorder is related to how much, how often and how quickly alcohol is consumed, though ...

In 2022, when the surge in popularity of the GLP-1 class of weight loss and diabetes drugs really began, stories of surprise ...

Intellia Therapeutics Inc. overhyped its lung-disease therapy study despite inefficiencies and costliness of such viral-editing treatments, sending share prices down 15%, a proposed class action says.