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 ...

An infant named KJ has made history as the first patient to be treated with an in vivo CRISPR gene editing therapy designed ...

For the first time, doctors have created a customized treatment using the revolutionary gene-editing technique known as ...

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 ...

We genotyped an additional 1,009 chromosomes, representing 21 geographic ... using the amplimers as sequencing primers and ABI Dye-terminator cycle sequencing reagents (PE Biosystems).

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 ...

Blackberry breeders have not had the necessary genetic information to identify why some plants lacked what are technically ...