Researchers at the School of Biological Sciences of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have uncovered how eukaryotic cells can ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered a crucial piece in the puzzle of how all animals with a ...

Explore RNA interference methods, comparing siRNA and shRNA for gene knockdown, their mechanisms, advantages, and implications for molecular biology research.

Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center and Heidelberg University showed that cells regulated inflammation through two mechanisms: rapid gene activation at nuclear control centers and ...

I hate to break this to you, but every child is a genetic experiment – and nature doesn’t care if things go wrong. Our genomes are awful messes created by conflicting evolutionary forces, and every ...

This year marked a pivotal moment in the quest to treat Huntington’s disease, a rare but devastating form of dementia. Scientists found that an experimental gene therapy slowed the condition’s ...

KJ Muldoon received a groundbreaking new treatment earlier this year. The baby saved from a rare disease by a first-ever personalized gene fix has reached a big milestone, taking his first steps ahead ...

Jason Mast is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the science behind new medicines and the systems and people that decide whether that science ever reaches patients. You can reach Jason ...

Research links variations in the gene GRIN2A to a higher risk of developing schizophrenia and other forms of mental illness. The GRIN2A gene regulates communication between neurons by producing the ...

Regeneron is adding its name to Tessera Therapeutics’ unique in vivo gene-writing program, inking a deal that lets it in on a prospect for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) through a $150 million ...

Background: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become one of the most prevalent chronic liver diseases worldwide, with its incidence closely linked to metabolic syndromes such as obesity and ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics—meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...