New genetic links to pancreatic cancer discovered
Researchers have used whole-genome sequencing to uncover new mutations responsible for a rare type of pancreatic cancer...
Researchers have used whole-genome sequencing to uncover new mutations responsible for a rare type of pancreatic cancer...
Researchers have identified a gene in roundworms that is involved in the feeling of fullness and the need to sleep after a meal...
A new study has found over 280 genes associated with male-pattern baldness...
by Ryan Ross
The US Patent and Trademark Office has upheld the right of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to the genome-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9...
New proposals from Richmond Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) could see NHS-funded IVF treatment available only in 'exceptional circumstances', such as for patients with HIV or cancer...
A UK Biobank study has found that genetics accounts for eight percent of the difference in people's feelings of tiredness and low energy...
An influential advisory group has given cautious support to the idea of making heritable changes to the human genome in order to treat or prevent disease...
A Canadian man with Fabry disease — a rare, inherited enzyme deficiency — is the first person to be given gene therapy for the condition...
Dish Life, the last of four films made for Cambridge Shorts, takes a quirky look at the daily life of a stem cell researcher...
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GIANT makes short work of height gene discovery
by Professor Darren Griffin
A recent large-scale study that discovered 83 rare genes related to human height reveals the power of so-called genome-wide association studies...