Using a panel of 11 genes linked to pediatric cancer predisposition syndromes, researchers found pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants in 7% of newborns who later developed a solid or brain tumor.

For millions of adults with autism spectrum disorder, drug-resistant epilepsy, or schizophrenia, the conventional medical wisdom has been clear and dispiriting: the window for treating the brain's ...

A Neanderthal-derived growth hormone receptor still carried by some people today appears to amplify growth-related signals in cells.

DNA (cfDNA)-optimized multiomic sequencing workflows for liquid biopsy and translational research. duet +modC mosaic and duet 6-base mosaic enable academic researchers, translational scientists, and ...

Gavin Arno, PhD, Associate Director of Research at the Greenwood Genetic Center (GGC), has received a three-year $300,000 Individual Investigator Research Award from the Foundation Fighting Blindness ...

People with fibromyalgia experience systemic muscular and skeletal pain, fatigue, and poor sleep. Fibromyalgia often coincides with other conditions including myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue ...

A centromere is a specific region on a chromosome that ensures that, when a cell divides, the chromosome separates accurately so each new cell receives the correct amount of genetic material. Despite ...

Medical Radiology Manipulator Ludovic Foy prepares a woman before she has a lung scan for the Acapulco experimentation in Ajaccio on December 16, 2021 on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica. - ...

Every living cell, from the simplest bacterium to a human neuron, relies on the same basic machinery to read, interpret, and use its DNA. This molecular machinery is so fundamental that life as we ...

As gene editing technologies expand across nucleases, high-fidelity variants and base editors, developers must evaluate the possibility that editing could occur at unintended genomic locations.

Cardiomyocytes exhibit marked susceptibility to ferroptosis after myocardial infarction (MI), rendering ferroptosis inhibition a promising therapeutic strategy to mitigate ischemic myocardial injury.

There are people around us who can maintain their weight despite what they eat. This has led scientists to believe that a person's metabolism and tendency toward obesity may have genetic factors ...