Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the 'dark genome' that are responsible ...
Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies ...
More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...
The developmental period is a critical window during which environmental cues interact with the genome to shape lifelong trajectories of health and disease.
Modern human faces are surprisingly delicate compared with the jutting jaws and broad noses of our closest extinct cousins.
Two years after this, Sakaguchi was able to link these discoveries. He proved that the Foxp3 gene governs the development of ...
Opus Genetics (Nasdaq: IRD) (“Opus Genetics” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing gene therapies to restore vision and prevent blindness in patients with inherited ...
The inaugural competition surprisingly awarded two $100,000 grand prizes to address challenges in defining robust benchmarks for complex biology.
A recent study in the journal PNAS from the lab of Julie Overbaugh reveals a previously unknown antiviral function of a gene ...
A study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has revealed important insights into the genetics of deposits in the eye, known as reticular pseudodrusen (RPD), that are linked to ...
Scientists uncovered a surprising four-layer structure hidden inside the hippocampal CA1 region, one of the brain’s major centers for memory, navigation, and emotion. Using advanced RNA imaging ...
Inside human cells, biology has pulled off the ultimate packing job, figuring out how to fit six feet of DNA into a nucleus ...