Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common, debilitating neurodegenerative disease affecting about 10 percent of people over the age of 65 and one third of people aged 85 and above. Besides environmental ...

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

An EHU study analyzing different genetic markers associated with facial features of the European population has shown a ...

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

Using an AI-driven drug discovery process, the drug known as vorinostat was identified as a promising treatment for Rett syndrome.

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.

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

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 ...