In 2025, baby KJ Muldoon became the first person to receive a personalized gene editing treatment, which likely saved his ...

Scientists studying animals at high altitudes discovered a previously unknown mechanism that is key for regulating myelin ...

最值得关注的是，该突变发生在非编码 DNA 区域 —— 人类 98% 的 DNA 不编码基因，曾被视为 “垃圾 DNA”，如今证实其像软件一样调控基因激活与蛋白质合成。此次突变的是名为 Enh13 的非编码调控元件，它是转录因子的 ...

The treatment, the first of its kind, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday. “Our baby was born deaf, ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and others have identified a neurodevelopmental disorder, caused by mutations in a single gene, that affects tens of thousands of people ...

SYNGAP1 encephalopathy is a rare genetic disorder for which there is no treatment. It causes epilepsy, intellectual ...

As the body ages, cells naturally accumulate dozens of genetic mutations each year. New research from Boston Children's Hospital, published in Cell, finds that the brain's resident immune cells, ...

Scientists have identified a genetic mutation that helps protect the brain function of animals that live in high-altitude, low-oxygen environments. This mutation has provided new insights into how ...

There are about 80,000 new cases of bladder cancer every year in the US alone. About one-third of cases are diagnosed at late stages when the disease is hard to treat. Scientists have now learned more ...

Researchers discovered a genetic mutation that could explain why some individuals thrive on as little as three hours of sleep per night. The study, published on May 5 in the journal Proceedings of the ...