Broad Institute researchers have developed a way to edit the genetic sequences at the root of Huntington's disease and ...

Current research in mouse behavioural genetics is directed towards understanding the molecular mechanisms that govern complex behaviours, such as biological rhythms, anxiety, and learning and ...

Scientists say they've put together a molecular toolkit that could be used to treat a variety of brain diseases, possibly ...

A team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical ...

Worldwide, more than 55 million people suffer from dementia caused by Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and other conditions that destroy cells in the brain and nervous system. While there is no treatment to ...

A century of direct genetics and about 15 years of targeting gene disruption in embryonic stem (ES) cells have provided mutations in some 10% of the genes expected in the mouse genome ...

If you've ever pulled a late night at the college library or at your office, you may have reached for an energy drink or two ...

In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy divers carefully snip ...

The mystery for this 21-year-old patent was not that he had fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, but that he'd lived so ...

The existence of orange cats dates back to at least the 12th century, but scientists have only had theories that a sex-linked ...

Early research shows that editing expanding trinucleotide repeats halts the lengthening process that causes neurological ...

SSRIs boosted the ability of T cells to kill cancer cells and suppressed tumor growth in both mouse and human tumor models.