A team that includes Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists has unlocked some of the secrets of corn DNA, revealing how ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to a new gene therapy for Amyotrophic Lateral ...

Blood tests could pave the way for distinguishing between Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and some dementias, aiding early treatment for brain diseases.

Genetic changes can signal evidence of disease, but pinpointing which genes and what's changed can be difficult.

Scientists from the Centenary Institute and the University of Sydney have made a landmark discovery that could lead to safer ...

Autoimmune diseases, like multiple sclerosis result when the body's immune system starts to attack its own cells. Regulatory T cells, a subtype of T cells play a critical role in suppressing these ...

Massive proteomics database links gene variant APOE 4 to chronic inflammation.

A team at the Peter Mac is planning for first-in-human trials in five years, hoping this new therapy will eschew the ...

Cis-regulatory elements (CREs)—including promoters, enhancers, silencers, and insulators—are critical non-coding DNA ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

This study demonstrates that Setd2 overexpression rescues bivalent gene expression during zygotic genome activation (ZGA) in ...