A large biological molecule made up of a string of sub-units called amino acids. There are thousands of different proteins in the human body, each with a particular job. For example, haemoglobin carries oxygen around the blood.
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...
A genetic variant linked to Alzheimer's disease impairs the production of the fatty layer that insulates neurons by disrupting an important signalling pathway...
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...
A gene therapy for Huntington's disease failed to show statistically significant slowing of disease progression after 48 months, according to newly released data...
A primate-specific gene known as BC200 has been found to have 'jumped' into a human virus from the pox family...
The discovery of a new gene-targeting system used by viruses to fend off competitors gives a glimpse into the possible evolutionary origin of CRISPR, and may offer new opportunities for genome editing technologies...
Base editing can efficiently alter the DNA of human embryos, but it can also result in unintended genomic changes....
A new AI-powered database predicts the effects of single-nucleotide changes in any of the three billion bases in human DNA...
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