The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

As Africa continues to shoulder the global burden of malaria, scientists and policy experts say gene drive technology could ...

Despite advances, the roles of genetics and microenvironment in CLL are not fully understood, and curative treatments may ...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver cancer and a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide ...

LINE-1, a "jumping gene" making up 20% of the genome, invades DNA during cell division using protein-RNA clusters, offering ...

As populations worldwide continue to age, chronic back pain caused by intervertebral disc degeneration is emerging as a widespread and costly health ...

Gene delivery systems can target specific brain cells, a breakthrough that could lead to treatments for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

"This mechanism is an inherent remedy to the gene's selfish drive," says Yamashita, who is also a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an investigator of the ...

A study published in Nature Genetics reveals new insights into how medulloblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumor of childhood, can arise as the cerebellum develops. Researchers discovered ...

Researchers discovered that the same gene, ZIC1, can drive highly similar cancers by distinct, context-dependent mechanisms. Led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Cancer ...

In two new papers, both published in Cell Reports Medicine, they do both, describing the mechanisms of how alterations in the CDK12 gene drive prostate cancer development and reporting on a ...