A hallmark of Parkinson's disease is the buildup of Lewy bodies—misfolded clumps of the protein known as alpha-synuclein.

Researchers reprogrammed bacterial bridge recombinases to edit large genomic regions in mammalian cells, revealing a ...

Late actor and comedian Catherine O’Hara was born with situs inversus, a condition that causes the internal organs to be mirrored. Here’s what you need to know.

Cancer cells carry thousands of mutations, but not all mutations are created equal. Some make tumors highly visible to the ...

Gene regulation is far more predictable than previously believed, scientists conclude after developing the deep learning ...

Congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) is caused by mutations in a specific calcium channel. A comprehensive proteomic study by researchers at the University of Innsbruck now reveals how these ...

During the Virtual Happy Hour, O’Hara said she learned about the condition more than 20 years ago. Situs inversus affects about 1 in every 10,000 people and is more common among men. Those diagnosed ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a revolutionary gene-editing method using bacterial retrons that can correct multiple disease-causing mutations at once. Unlike ...