Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy traveling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen ...

The mum and dad of a baby with a genetic disease so rare it has no name have vowed to keep fighting for him after the ...

Polymerase expression and activity are highly regulated in cells during development by genetic and epigenetic mechanisms. There are few human diseases that have been linked to mutations or defects ...

GeneDx CEO Katherine Stueland likes the potential of newborn testing, but she says her Stamford, Connecticut, company is ...

A groundbreaking pangenomic study has revealed a major DNA flip that appears to have made the small bird resistant to certain diseases. "Traditionally people study the genetic variation in a ...

An international research team has identified key genetic factors that confer protective effects against Alzheimer's disease (AD) through a comprehensive genetic analysis of East Asian populations, ...

Huntington’s disease symptoms are linked to expanding DNA repeats (CAG) that become toxic in brain cells over time The "ticking DNA clock" accelerates after 80 repeats, killing neurons within ...

Scientists from a collaboration of Australian research institutions have proposed that editing multiple genetic variants in human embryos could significantly lower the likelihood of developing ...

This type of "somatic expansion" occurs in only the specific types of brain cells that later die in Huntington's disease. Only once a cell's DNA expansion reaches a threshold number of CAGs ...

GeneDx has a big market in mind for its genetic testing: every newborn baby. The 24-year-old-company wants to make the ...

chu-montpellier.fr In adulthood, spinal cord MRI abnormalities such as T2-weighted hyperintensities and atrophy are commonly associated with a large variety of causes (inflammation, infections, ...