Situs inversus is a rare genetic condition that causes the organs in the chest and abdomen to be located on the opposite side ...

Smaller nucleoli slow aging, acting as a "mortality timer," while larger nucleoli lead to cell death by destabilizing rDNA. The secret to cellular youth may lie in maintaining a small nucleolus—a ...

GT-0002X is under clinical development by Gene Therapy Research Institution and currently in Phase II for Parkinson's Disease.

Interferon gamma-1b is under clinical development by Amgen and currently in Phase II for Myelodysplastic Syndrome.

A virus that infects ocean phytoplankton was found to encode a ribosomal protein, a first for eukaryotic viruses. Researchers ...

Samples from a hospitalized patient in Louisiana show changes that could make the H5N1 virus spread more easily between ...

The salivary amylase gene, known as AMY1, is already known to have helped us adapt to eating carbs. It encodes amylase, an ...

Understanding how deletion mutations in mitochondrial DNA contribute to aging can help delay age-related decline in ...

A cell protein previously believed only to provide a scaffolding for DNA has also been shown to directly influence DNA transcription into RNA – the first step of the process by which an organism's ...

A recent study has uncovered the genetic basis behind the color of tomato fruits, focusing on the role of the YFT3 gene in ...

Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) revealed that stress alters how our brain encodes and retrieves aversive memories, and they developed a potential new method for restoring ...

This study provides important insights into the regulation of a retained intron in the mRNA coding for OGT, a process known to be regulated by the O-GlcNAc cycling system, and highlights the ...