The Breakthrough Prize Foundation awarded researchers involved in developing gene therapies for blindness and sickle cell ...

In a new study published in Genes & Development, research led by Dr. Lila Allou at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences ...

Bacterial blight (BB) is a serious plant disease that mainly affects rice plants, especially in warm, humid regions. Due to ...

Why do brain disorders affect men and women differently? Researchers used RNA sequencing to identify 3,000 sex-biased genes ...

A new study helps explain why a promising class of cancer drugs has often failed to meet expectations in clinical trials.

The treatment for primary immunodeficient diseases is varied. As mentioned before, the most common type of primary immunodeficient disease are antibody deficiencies. Either patients don't make enough ...

A macrophage that has already fought off one infection does not return to a blank slate. It carries chemical scars, etched ...

A new analysis of individual brain cells across several human brain regions reveals subtle but widespread differences in gene activity between male and female brains. This may help explain why some ...

In a time when what defines gender is being questioned and discussed, a new study reveals that single changes in DNA make dramatic differences.

Remarkably, 98 percent of our DNA does not code for genes. Once considered “junk DNA,” it is now well appreciated that these ...

A new genome sequencing study has revealed valuable information about how the golden sweeper fish produces light. Their body ...