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.
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...
Gene therapy designed to deliver a healthy copy of the ALPK3 gene can restore heart function, raising the possibility of a future treatment for some forms of inherited cardiomyopathy...
PGT-A is widely used to assess the chromosome status of IVF embryos, but how accurately can a biopsy of just a handful of cells predict an embryo's genetic makeup? Dr Desislava Staneva explains why interpreting PGT-A results is more complex than it may first appear...
Rare variants in the FNIP1 gene are linked to lower body fat, less liver fat, a more favourable fat distribution and around 60 percent lower odds of cardiometabolic disease, according to the largest exome-sequencing study of energy metabolism to date...
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