A new CRISPR approach can control genes without cutting DNA, opening a safer path for treating genetic diseases. A newly developed form of CRISPR at UNSW Sydney points to a safer way of treating ...
Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During ...
This study offers important insight into the pathogenic basis of intragenic frameshift deletions in the carboxy-terminal domain of MECP2, which account for some Rett syndrome cases, yet similar ...
It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...
Three start-ups are aiming to create gene-edited babies. Columnist Michael Le Page has no doubt that editing our offspring ...
Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During ...
When Marc and Cristina Easton’s son was diagnosed with autism at 20 months, the Baltimore couple left the doctor’s appointment in confusion. Their toddler – who was very social – did not resemble the ...
Tiffany Fransen's lifelong clumsiness turned out to be a rare neurodegenerative disease. Friedreich’s ataxia leads to muscle ...
Tanning bed users are known to have a higher risk of skin cancer, but for the first time researchers have found that young ...
Even as humpbacks rebound in number, their genomes reveal a loss of genetic diversity and a buildup of harmful mutations left ...
A new study published today in Science Translational Medicine by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer ...