A University of California San Diego-led team has discovered that restoring a key cardiac protein called connexin‑43 in a ...

No gene acts alone: interacting variants and protein partnerships can worsen, mask or even rescue disease risk, demanding ...

What if a cup of coffee could help treat cancer? Researchers at the Texas A&M Health Institute of Biosciences and Technology ...

Researchers have discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis. A study published in ...

Our genome isn’t as peaceful as it looks—some DNA elements are constantly trying to disrupt it. Scientists studying fruit ...

Experimental gene therapies like AMT‑130 lower toxic huntingtin protein and significantly slow Huntington’s disease, offering ...

Researchers in Class of 1942 Professor of Chemistry Matthew D. Shoulders' lab have uncovered a sinister hidden mechanism that ...

The meat industry’s celebration of the Trump administration’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans should be a clear sign that ...

Iron (Fe) is a vital micronutrient for plants, which is required for processes such as photosynthesis and enzyme activity.

Alzheimer’s may be driven far more by genetics than previously thought, with one gene playing an outsized role. Researchers ...

More than 9 out of 10 Alzheimer's cases could be driven by specific variations in a single gene and the protein it produces, ...

New one-dose treatment edits a gene in the liver, disabling the ANGPTL3 protein and significantly lowers cholesterol.