About a million people worldwide have autism originating in mutation in SHANK3 gene; researchers say findings may lead to ...

A breakthrough tool called Helicase-Assisted Continuous Editing (HACE) allows scientists to create precise genetic mutations ...

Differentiating hereditary from nonhereditary retinoblastoma is now possible overnight, improving early intervention ...

Gene Principe delivered yet another treat to Edmonton Oilers fans ahead of Friday night's tilt against the Utah Hockey Club.

Ring Chromosome 20 Syndrome, or (R)20, is an ultra-rare form of epilepsy with a devastating impact – yet despite huge leaps forward in gene sequencing in recent years, diagnoses are going down ...

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have discovered the underlying biology that identifies a subset ...

BIGSdb is software designed to store and analyse sequence data for bacterial isolates. Any number of sequences can be linked to isolate records - these can be small contigs assembled from dideoxy ...

Gene therapy for some diseases, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), can be tricky because the needed gene is often ...

Epigenetics and epigenomics represent two burgeoning fields at the forefront of modern biological inquiry. Epigenetics investigates heritable changes in gene expression that occur without any ...

Doctors are seeing a troubling rise in colorectal cancer cases among young adults under 50. Once considered a disease ...