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

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene "silencer" that resides in junk DNA is directly sparing people from a devastating ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a promising new approach that could be used to treat a rare and ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer's disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of the puzzle.

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

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

A combination of human pedigree analysis and fruit fly genetics has identified a gene variant that appears to prevent PIGA-CDG, a rare but serious seizure disorder. The findings could ultimately lead ...

A surprising new study suggests that COVID-19 may not have originated from bats or pangolins, but rather from a rare fusion ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

Postdoctoral scholar Daniela Soto has earned a prestigious fellowship from HHMI with eight years of funding to study the ...