A gene has been identified which could play a role in increasing the risk of women developing Alzheimer's disease...
The monkeypox virus is mutating at an unprecedented rate, arising from a single human case, according to results from a Portuguese study...
Genetics may help to predict the risk of joint replacement rejection, a recent study suggests...
A recent episode of Genetics Unzipped 'Have a heart: the science of xenotransplantation' talked about the process of transplanting organs from animals into human bodies...
A gene involved in the processing of lipids in the brain, has been found to be associated with motor neurone diseases (MNDs), a group of hereditary, neurodegenerative conditions...
Every single human gene has been linked to its function by scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who have made the comprehensive gene-function map freely available to the scientific community...
New research using brain organoids suggests that stem cell senescence, where cells are halted in a suspended state, is responsible for the fetal brain changes caused by sodium valproate...
Variants in three genes have been linked to an increased risk of a woman creating aneuploid embryos while undergoing IVF and used to create a risk score using machine learning...
The APOE4 gene variant increases a person's risk of Alzheimer's disease exponentially, though a new protective mutation has been discovered to protect against this risk...
Hundreds of inherited mutations to BRCA1, a high-risk susceptibility gene for breast and ovarian cancer, have been shown to be harmless...
