A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

Medicine is rapidly evolving from statistical, evidence-based approaches to predictive, genotype-directed care, driven by ...

Scientists discover karyoptosis, a new cell death mechanism causing nuclear disintegration in Alzheimer's and frontotemporal ...

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...

We have identified the gene that, when activated, initiates the developmental programme that results in cells forming a human ...

Introduction Efficient preventive management of acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is ...

Silver nanoparticles provide a more efficient way to cut and assemble DNA, improving recovery rates and boosting DNA joining ...

For a child diagnosed with neuroblastoma-the most common infant cancer, occurring when early nerve cells grow out of control-the path to treatment isn't simple.

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

For Beijing-based METiS TechBio CEO Lai Tsai-ta, ageing is comparable to bugs building up in a complex software system – it happens once errors begin to accumulate in the genetic code of human cells, ...

As predictive medicine advances, legal scholars warn that decades-old federal guidelines could set up a potential clash between your genes and your job. By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn Imagine this ...