Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

Cyclone is a portable gene-switch system that uses acyclovir to reversibly control gene expression with minimal toxicity.

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is one of life's most versatile molecules, with roles going far beyond being a messenger of genetic ...

Researchers at Ulm University Hospital discovered that mutations in the brain’s MC4R gene, which cause obesity, also lower ...

We have written about the promise of gene therapy to correct genetic disease many times. An exciting development happened ...

The path to approval for uniQure’s gene therapy candidate for Huntington’s disease is in doubt as the US Food and Drug ...

Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.

What if the brain's response to stress could be read not in fleeting neurotransmitter bursts, but in the quieting of genes ...

Women who consumed more ultra-processed foods (UPFs) showed distinct DNA methylation patterns, mostly reduced across key gene ...

A novel machine learning gene risk biomarker test successfully predicted patient response to semaglutide treatment after ...