A newly identified gene mutation may help explain why schizophrenia patients struggle to update their understanding of ...

UF scientist develops safer gene therapy restoring vision in children with rare inherited eye diseases; pivotal trials begin ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Elderly patients who carry the apolipoprotein E (APOE) e4 allele, a gene mutation implicated in Alzheimer's disease, are at increased risk for experiencing early delirium ...

Damaging variants in genes involved in a rapid immune response (innate immunity) are significantly linked to earlier breast ...

Mitochondria are well known as the powerhouses of the cell because of their energy generating capabilities. These little organelles are very special, because they also carry their own tiny little ...

CRISPR Cas9 gene therapy explained with DNA scissors, hereditary diseases treatment, and designer babies ethical dilemmas ...

Modern humans are the lone survivors of a diverse family of hominin species that once walked the Earth. Neanderthals and Denisovans thrived for hundreds of thousands of years, only to vanish while ...

Bowel cancer cells have the ability to regulate their growth using a genetic on-off switch to maximize their chances of survival, a phenomenon that's been observed for the first time by researchers at ...

Findings may support development of more refined personalized breast cancer risk prediction models for BRCA1 pathogenic ...