Prime editing – a type of genome editing – has been used to alter DNA directly inside a person's body for the first time...
New research using mice may reveal how smoking affects reproductive health via different mechanisms in men and women...
Newborn genome screening could transform the early detection of genetic conditions, but incomplete penetrance could lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Large-scale population studies are needed to understand the risks and help design effective screening programmes…
A genetic variant linked to Alzheimer's disease impairs the production of the fatty layer that insulates neurons by disrupting an important signalling pathway...
A genome editing technique has corrected a disease-causing mutation in blood stem cells taken from a patient with a rare and severe immune disorder...
Researchers have turned an 80-year-old's blood precursor cells into neural stem cells, resetting the cells' 'biological age' in the process...
From light-sensitive, single-celled algae to using lasers to trigger mouse whisker movements, the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognises the discovery of light-gated ion channels and their applications in optogenetics to study brain function...
Chronic cigarette smoke exposure may change lung stem cells in ways that influence which types of lung cancer develop when cancer-driving genetic alterations occur...
A primate-specific gene known as BC200 has been found to have 'jumped' into a human virus from the pox family...
Professor Eric Turkheimer's new book argues for a re-framing of the nature-nurture debate, questioning both what heritability estimates can tell us and what they mean for our understanding of human nature…
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