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.
Neither mRNA or inactivated virus COVID-19 vaccines cause changes to syncytin-1 antibody levels in women of reproductive age...
Hundreds of inherited mutations to BRCA1, a high-risk susceptibility gene for breast and ovarian cancer, have been shown to be harmless...
A new form of stem cell-based therapy has been developed and tested in mice for the treatment of glioblastoma, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer...
A mechanism which controls mitochondrial production and activity has been identified, and could help explain mitochondrial functional decline with age…
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...
A novel mutation in a gene called TLR7 has been identified as directly linked to the development of lupus...
While viruses and vaccines are not typical topics for a genetics and assisted reproduction newsletter, the past two years have seen a shift in BioNews coverage to include various COVID-19-related developments...
An approach which significantly improves the ability to modify mitochondrial DNA in living cells has been developed by scientists in South Korea...
More human genes have been identified as driving cancer development than previously assumed...
Nearly two decades after the initial release of the human genome sequence, scientists have published the first gap-less, complete sequence...
