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 seventh person appears to have been cured of HIV due to a blood stem cell transplant...
Disruption to a gene causes malformations to the development of sperm tails, resulting in mice producing no functional sperm...
Over 31,000 new transcripts found in blood cells from non-European populations are absent from current human gene reference maps...
Rare genetic variants in a single gene appear to increase the risk of developing mental health conditions, according to a new study...
An artificial intelligence model has been developed to identify unseen disease-causing genetic variants and rank their severity, according to a new study...
A new multipurpose genome editing approach could address around a third of rare genetic diseases...
The 3D structure of the human genome has been mapped at the level of individual bases, defining complex structures which control how DNA functions within the cell...
Individual genes have been shown to produce multiple proteins, providing a potential insight into rare diseases that have previously lacked a clear explanation...
A novel method for visualising human blastocyst development – which has led to findings with implications for PGT-A – is described by Dr Ahmed Abdelbaki, a postdoctoral researcher in the Niakan Lab at the University of Cambridge...
Two gene therapy trials run by Intellia Therapeutics have been paused after a study participant was hospitalised...
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