An in vivo base editing approach targeting the PRNP gene led to a 52% increase in the lifespan of mouse models inoculated with the most common sporadic and genetic types of human pathogenic prion ...

There is evidence that Crohn’s disease is genetic, though environmental factors may also be involved. Crohn’s disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes inflammation in ...

Your DNA may predict more about you than the way you look. According to the genetic theory of aging, your genes (as well as mutations in those genes) are responsible for how long you'll live. Here's ...

New work by Columbia researchers has turned a textbook principle of genetics on its head and revealed why some people who carry disease-causing genes experience no symptoms. Every biology student ...

Each gene tells a cell to make a specific molecule, but this isn't performed by the DNA itself. Instead, the information is relayed to cellular machinery by a molecule called messenger RNA.

UC Davis graduate student Jeffrey Groh has discovered how walnut trees are able to produce flowers of different sexes at different times in the same season. The genetic mechanism is similar to sex ...

The pair had helped identify a still-unnamed disease, which they had tied to a particular gene and to a particular ... mutations could help explain or define other types of illnesses too.

Ancient DNA unlocks new understanding of migrations in the first millennium AD Date: January 1, 2025 Source: The Francis Crick Institute Summary: Waves of human migration across Europe during the ...

As she worked at her computer, the results revealed the sample she was examining contained human DNA. There was nothing so unusual about that in itself: at the time, the ancient DNA (aDNA ...

Much of this toughness comes down to the surface of the virus, a protein coat which acts a little like armour, shielding its inner genetic material. Foster points out that while a lot of viruses ...

In many of the leukaemias, the IPCR identified more than one candidate disease gene (Table 2). This was not surprising, as 42% of the IPCR products identified potential cancer genes (Table 1 ...

After 30 seconds of light exposure, flies in tubes facing the light or dark side of the chamber were collected, DNA was extracted, and TaG-EM barcodes were amplified and sequenced. Barcode abundance ...