In the coming year, regulatory authorities in the US are expected to approve a pig gene-edited to make it resistant to a common and devastating disease. That approval could open the door to a much ...
Could this be a doubled edge sword? As co-first author Kümmel points out: “Evolution has seemingly led some pathogens to hijack host immune receptors, turning the plants weapons against themselves to ...
A large new population study of men over 45 indicates insulin resistance may be an important risk factor for the development of the world's most common heart valve disease -- aortic stenosis (AS).
However, progress towards therapies and prenatal diagnosis of mtDNA diseases has been severely impeded by the lack of a mouse model of mtDNA disease: direct manipulation of the mtDNA of mammals is ...
Prof James Seddon, of Imperial’s Department of Infectious Disease, said: “Multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB, remains challenging to treat, and children have always been the most neglected of all ...