Gene Therapy: Revolutionizing Medicine By Tackling Diseases At Their Genetic Roots
Gene therapy represents a paradigm shift in modern medicine, offering unprecedented opportunities to combat diseases at their ...
Does diet outweigh genetics when it comes to Alzheimer's risk?
Genes play a role in whether someone gets Alzheimer's, but new research from Northeastern University psychology and ...
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Does your genetics make you run faster? What’s the speed gene?
Factors like nutrition and muscle strength and size are all involved when it comes to your running speed, and your genetics ...
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How centuries of isolation shaped Greenlanders’ unique genetics
An analysis of the genomes of nearly 6,000 Greenlandic people suggests that their Inuit ancestors rarely moved around after ...
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Genetics of Left-Handedness: Major Breakthroughs
About 10 in 100 people are left-handed, but why? A new article highlights the crucial role of early brain development for ...
Cracking the Corn Code: Scientists Reveal the Genetic Secrets of Domestication
MaizeCODE is a genomic project analyzing the genetic basis of maize domestication. Researchers identified key regulatory ...
Mouse model unveils dynamics through which SYNGAP1 gene supports cognitive function
The SYNGAP1 gene, which supports the production of a protein called SynGAP (Synaptic Ras GTPase-Activating Protein), is known ...
Researchers identify genetic cause of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas ...
Gene therapy for rare epilepsy shows promise in mice
Dravet syndrome and other developmental epileptic encephalopathies are rare but devastating conditions that cause a host of ...
Gene-edited rice can produce a compound that's vital for human health
A team of Chinese scientists has used targeted gene editing to develop rice that produces coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), a vital ...
Gene 'silencer' in junk DNA prevents fatal neurological disease
A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene ...
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Gene variant could protect against ultra-rare seizure disorder, fruit fly research finds
A combination of human pedigree analysis and fruit fly genetics has identified a gene variant that appears to prevent PIGA-CDG, a rare but serious seizure disorder. The findings could ultimately lead ...