A knockout is a laboratory animal in which researchers have inactivated, or 'knocked out,' an existing gene by replacing it or disrupting it with an artificial piece of DNA.
Deletion of a specific gene in mice leads to behaviours and brain changes characteristic of autism...
A gene has been discovered to cause an increase in an individual's body fat percentage, with its suppression in mice leading to lower body fat percentages...
A US man has received the second-ever transplant of a pig heart...
In this episode of Genetics Unzipped, Dr Kat Arney explores how birthweight is linked to the risk of diabetes and investiges the multifaceted role of the hormone prolactin...
A personalised form of genome-edited T cell therapy has shown promising results for the treatment of solid tumours...
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...
A mitochondrial gene has been identified as a potential therapeutic target for prostate cancers that have spread to other parts of the body and evade current treatment strategies...
Genome editing of blood could provide new treatments for HIV according to a new study...
Not only do our olfactory receptors send smell signals to the brain, but they can also promote the spread of cancer there too...
Genes that could be involved in heart development have been identified using a method that looks for candidate genes not solely expressed in heart tissue.
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