Our understanding of human placenta formation just deepened with the discovery of a gene essential to early embryonic ...

A gene that turns on very early in embryonic development could be key to the formation of the placenta, which provides the ...

Findings suggest that new genes can form by repurposing fragments of ancestral genes while incorporating entirely new coding regions (the protein-coding parts of the DNA). This innovative concept ...

Ultrastructure expansion microscopy of murine male germ cells reveals the fine molecular structures of centrioles (shown in ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) -People who carry two copies of the APOE4 gene are virtually guaranteed to develop Alzheimer's and face symptoms at an earlier age, researchers reported on Monday in a study that ...

Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors which, in early fetal ...

For the first time, gene therapy is showing promise for treating inherited deafness, researchers reported Wednesday. A study involving six children born with a genetic defect that left them profoundly ...

PITTSBURGH, May 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NeuBase Therapeutics, Inc. (NBSE) (Nasdaq: NBSE) (“NeuBase” or the “Company”), a biotechnology company developing Stealth Editors™ to perform in vivo gene ...

Scientists report that gene therapy restored at least some hearing and speech for five out of six children with a rare form of genetic deafness. Gene therapy shows promise for an inherited form of ...