People genetically susceptible to Huntington's disease often see their movement, mood, and cognition decline slowly over time ...

Over the past two decades, large genetic studies have linked tens of thousands of DNA variants to thousands of human traits ...

Most mutations which cause disease by swapping one amino acid out for another do so by making the protein less stable, ...

The centromere of chromosomes plays a crucial role in cell division. Using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, an international team of researchers has investigated how two crucial proteins -- KNL2 ...

Unstable proteins are the main drivers of many different heritable diseases, according to a new study, including genetic disorders responsible for the formation of cataracts, and different types of ...

The centromere of chromosomes plays a crucial role in cell division. Using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, an international team of researchers led by the Leibniz Institute IPK has investigated ...

Speculation about the alleged findings of a study on long COVID and post-vaccination syndrome spread widely among vaccine ...

A research team from the University of California, Irvine has revealed a previously unknown mechanism that triggers an inflammatory immune response in cells when their DNA is damaged.

Computational pipeline SPICE systematically screens and predicts novel protein-protein binding complexes including the previously unrecognized global association and functional cooperation between ...

Large language models may unlock a new and valuable type of research.

This research deepens our understanding of the evolutionary origin of DGRs and may be applicable to future gene-editing techniques. The study was published January 8, 2025 in Nature and was led by ...