Alzheimer’s may be driven far more by genetics than previously thought, with one gene playing an outsized role. Researchers ...
A new study confirms this long-held theory, discovering that 60 percent of defective genetic pairs impacting the production ...
Our body controls the levels of sugar in our blood with a hormone called insulin, which is made by beta cells in the pancreas. In type 1 diabetes, the immune system erroneously attacks those beta ...
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 ...
Mental illnesses are thought to directly impact about one in every seven people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, and those around them are also often affected. Mental health ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SRPT), the leader in precision genetic medicine for rare diseases, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA ...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Opus Genetics (Nasdaq: IRD), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing gene therapies for the treatment of inherited retinal ...
The neurologic disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE has most often been found in people who experienced repeated blows to the head while playing contact sports and there’s now ...
Advanced biotechnology repurposes two bacterial immune systems to correct large stretches of DNA. Human cells that have been edited with the new retron-based gene editing technology. Orange dots mark ...
Human cells that have been edited with the new retron-based gene editing technology. Orange dots mark successful gene edits. Green dots show a fluorescent protein tag on the surface of mitochondria.
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Each year, a small number of babies are born mostly, if not fully, deaf because one of their genes isn’t working. The gene normally makes a protein that the hairs in our inner ears need to relay sound ...