Parasitic worms that infect humans are not interbreeding with those that infect cattle as previously thought. This is good ...

Genetic defects are exceedingly common, which is not surprising considering just how many cells make up our bodies, including our reproductive cells. While most of these defects have no or only ...

The goal is to reuse key parts of the treatment and simply swap in a custom set of instructions for each patient's specific ...

For the first time, doctors have created a customized treatment using the revolutionary gene-editing technique known as CRISPR to treat a baby with a rare, life-threatening genetic disorder.

Researchers have found another new gene mutation that may be linked to people being able to function normally on just four ...

Paralyzed by fear that she could be the next family member to be diagnosed with cancer, she put her faith in God and made an important decision to break a familial cycle. “I underwent genetic ...

A rapid genetic analysis revealed that both his maternal and paternal ... The duo had focused on urea cycle disorders, such ...

Researchers at UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute, or IGI, developed a revolutionary treatment using CRISPR gene ...

Sleep science holds clues Understanding genetic changes in naturally short ... the internal clock responsible for our sleep–wake cycle. The researchers suggested that this variation contributed ...

Turned out, KJ was born with carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 (CPS1), an inherited genetic disease known as a urea cycle disorder. The condition causes toxic levels of ammonia to build up in a ...

The Black Death remains the single deadliest pandemic in recorded human history. The post Single gene evolution helped Black ...

Yeasts and filamentous fungi are extensively used as model organisms for eukaryotic genetic research, including cell cycle regulation, chromatin structure, genetic recombination and gene regulation.