Scientists have for the first time been able to switch on and off the effects of a genetic disease, myotonic dystrophy, in human muscle tissue...
Scientists have found molecular similarities between a subtype of breast cancer and a hard-to-treat form of ovarian cancer...
The first detailed maps of genetic activity in the human brain have been published online by scientists...
Two independent studies have suggested new targets for treating neurodegenerative diseases...
US researchers have developed a way to analyse the viability of human eggs at a genetic level without causing them harm. This technology will help improve the chances of successful IVF for couples with fertility problems...
Scientists have discovered a way to bypass the type of mutation that causes about a third of human genetic diseases. Experiments in yeast have shown how chemical modifications can allow a cell's machinery to ignore mistakes in DNA known as nonsense mutations...
Gene activity in two brain regions is different in autism, scientists say. A US study found activity patterns were similar in the frontal and temporal lobes of people with autism, despite the lobes having different functions...
A novel and more efficient method for generating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from adult cells using small RNA molecules has been discovered by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in the USA...
The results of a huge multinational project to pinpoint all the genes and related proteins essential for cell division are to be made publically available for other researchers to use...
A feature of science, perhaps a characteristic feature, is that over time some of its better 'ideas' have come increasingly to be seen as actual 'things'. From being (only) conceptual they become physically real with a definite measurable size and a three-dimensional structure. A process of materialisation is in evidence...
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