Scientists at Google DeepMind —the company’s artificial intelligence research arm—say they’ve created an A.I. tool that can ...

Humanized mouse models are essential for investigating human gene function; however, the complete replacement of mouse genes ...

Understanding human gene function in living organisms has long been hampered by fundamental differences between species.

Tanning bed usage can cause DNA damage, mutate skin cells beyond ordinary sun exposure and increase the risk of melanoma by nearly three times, according to a Northwestern University study published ...

Scientists from Mass General Brigham and the Broad Institute have been studying more effective ways of treating people living with Friedreich’s ataxia (FA). People with this rare and progressive ...

Mitochondria are well known as the powerhouses of the cell because of their energy generating capabilities. These little organelles are very special, because they also carry their own tiny little ...

1 The Affiliated Dongguan Songshan Lake Central Hospital, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, China 2 Dongguan Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Regenerative Tissue Engineering, Department of Human ...

The secret to the naked mole-rats' extraordinarily long life may lie in subtle changes to just four amino acids, researchers report. According to a new study, evolutionary mutations in cGAS – an ...

Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), small pieces of DNA released from dying tumor cells into the bloodstream, can be easily and non-invasively identified and examined through a simple blood test. This ...

1 Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Biofunctional Evaluation, Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Gifu, Japan 2 Department of Clinical Research, NHO, Nagara Medical Center, Gifu, Japan Leber’s ...

In human cells, there are about 20,000 genes on a two-meter DNA strand—finely coiled up in a nucleus about 10 micrometers in diameter. By comparison, this corresponds to a 40-kilometer thread packed ...