New research suggests that autoimmune diseases may be driven by DNA mutations in immune cells that remove the natural brakes ...

The findings show how the H5N1 bird flu virus is evolving in livestock and what that may mean for human health.

Though many studies approach the developmental disorder Rett syndrome as a single condition arising from general loss of ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

A tiny antibody component could fundamentally transform the treatment of cystic fibrosis: For the first time, researchers ...

In 2025, baby KJ Muldoon became the first person to receive a personalized gene editing treatment, which likely saved his ...

Researchers say a new AI system can identify disease-causing mutations and explain their biological effects, potentially ...

New research suggests that autoimmune diseases may be driven by DNA mutations in immune cells that remove the natural brakes on the immune system. It reveals a previously hidden role for somatic ...

Can Rett syndrome be treated with precision medicine? A new study using brain organoids shows that mutations R306C and V247X ...

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have revealed the detailed workings of a cell membrane protein that has essential roles ...

Remarkably, 98 percent of our DNA does not code for genes. Once considered “junk DNA,” it is now well appreciated that these ...