New research from UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has uncovered an evolutionary change that may explain why certain ...

Scientists at UC Davis discovered a small genetic difference that could explain why humans are more prone to certain cancers ...

Rett syndrome is a devastating rare genetic childhood disorder primarily affecting girls. Merely 1 out of 10,000 girls are ...

Insulin-producing human pancreas cells can be manufactured with 3D printers, researchers reported at the International Transplant Congress underway in London.

A team of researchers from the San Raffaele-Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-TIGET, Milan), led by Nadia Coltella and ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

An international research team led by the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) has discovered a new strategy used by ...

A new gene therapy trial safely restores hearing in deaf children and adults, offering hope for those with DFNB9 deafness ...

Eggs and embryos from people with polycystic ovary syndrome have altered patterns of so-called epigenetic tags, which could explain how the condition is inherited ...

Human DNA contains roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code. However, we understand only a fraction of what this vast ...

A study published in mBio details the vulnerability of coronaviruses to inhibitors of a small protein domain called Mac1, or the "macrodomain," found in all coronaviruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and ...