Gene therapy trial begins in children born with rare genetic deafness
A world-first trial has launched in the UK to see whether gene therapy can provide hearing for children with severe to profound hearing loss caused by a rare genetic condition...
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 world-first trial has launched in the UK to see whether gene therapy can provide hearing for children with severe to profound hearing loss caused by a rare genetic condition...
The genome of chickens has been edited to make them partially resistant to infection with bird flu...
The link between genetic variants, circulating blood protein levels and their association with disease was investigated in one of the largest studies to date...
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Professor Katalin Karikó and Professor Drew Weissman for their discoveries relating to nucleoside base modifications, which contributed to the development of mRNA vaccines...
A new artificial intelligence tool has predicted how likely some DNA changes are to cause disease in humans...
by Jake Knox
Although sperm cells do contain some mitochondria, scientists have found that these mitochondria do not contain intact mitochondrial DNA...
by Emma Green
Approximately one in five people carry a protective gene variant that lowers the risk of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease by ten percent...
A novel mutation is present in 39 percent of Parkinson's disease patients of African heritage, but is virtually absent in those of European descent, a global genome wide association study has found...
Two publications about Y chromosome sequencing have contributed to the completion of the reference genome available to researchers, in a way that could improve understanding of male health and fertility...
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