Polygenic scores used to predict type 2 diabetes outcome in largest study to date
New genetic markers that drive the development of type 2 diabetes and other vascular diseases have been identified...
New genetic markers that drive the development of type 2 diabetes and other vascular diseases have been identified...
The frequency of genetic variants associated with the risk of developing disease varies between groups of people with different ancestries, according to a large US study...
Genome editing has been used to successfully correct genetic defects in a mouse model of a fatal hereditary disease...
145 genes have been identified as key to maintaining genome stability, protection, repair, and preventing DNA damage...
by Dr Sayyed Mohamed Muhsin and 1 others
Dr Sayyed Mohamed Muhsin and Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin give an ethical analysis of germline genome editing to prevent genetic diseases based on Islamic legal maxims (Qawaid Fiqhiyyah)...
A long non-coding RNA that plays a role in the inactivation of one of the X chromosomes in females, could be behind why autoimmune diseases disproportionately affect women...
Patient-derived tumour organoids can predict how effectively patients with bowel cancer will respond to drug treatment, according to a new study...
by Jen Willows
The Superior Court of Pennsylvania court has ruled that two women who concieved a child via IVF during their marriage are both legal parents, despite only one being the genetic mother...
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