Cancer cells have special adaptation mechanisms that allow them to proliferate despite changes in their genetic makeup.

Researchers provided a long-awaited and rare genetic diagnosis in a child with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a type of ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a promising new approach that could be used to treat a rare and ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered new details about how the human genome produces instructions for creating ...

RNA-based medicines are one of the most promising ways to fight human disease, as demonstrated by the recent successes of RNA ...

Star formation is the process by which stars are born from dense regions of gas and dust in interstellar space The process starts when some of those clumps reach a critical mass, allowing them to ...

Researchers created the first bi-paternal mouse by modifying imprinting genes, advancing reproductive science but facing ...

Structural variants in the human genome ... chromosomes, are found to have no clinical consequence, whereas those that involve euchromatic regions are more likely to disrupt genes and/or ...

Summary: A team of investigators from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Google, and Columbia University have created an artificial intelligence model that can ...

The X contains more genes related to brain function than does any other chromosome. “The X chromosome may be a treasure trove ...

Quantification and characterization of these multiple HML-2 insertions in the human chromosome has been challenging due to ... autoimmune disorders and neurodegenerative diseases, using long-read DNA ...

The X chromosome passed from mom ... not to differences in the genes themselves, she explained. This also enabled the team to pinpoint differences in epigenetics — chemical tags that attach to DNA and ...