Scientists discovered a blood stem cell mutation that may lower Alzheimer’s risk. Learn how this breakthrough could shape ...

Logan Cyr, 16, joined a global accelerator program for teens that enables him to research cures for genetic malformations.

Scientists with the NIH-backed SMaHT Network are mapping every DNA mutation in the human body, creating a groundbreaking ...

In a step toward treating mitochondrial diseases, researchers in the Netherlands have successfully edited harmful mutations ...

Fourteen million people worldwide suffer from enlarged hearts, or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a genetic disease that ...

Rats in Australia may have genetic mutation that increases resistance to widely used poisons by Bob Yirka, Phys.org edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

Citrate is essential for the metabolism and development of neurons. A membrane transport protein called SLC13A5 plays a central role in this process and has previously been linked to a particularly ...

Women with breast cancer who were also carriers of the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation and received textured breast implants as part of their reconstructive surgery after mastectomy were 16 times more ...

KRAS mutations occur particularly frequently in various types of cancer, especially lung, bowel and pancreatic cancer, and can promote the growth of tumors.

New research from UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has uncovered an evolutionary change that may explain why certain ...

Researchers have shown that genetic messages are misplaced in nerve cells in a model of Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia.