A new UCLA Health study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in ...

Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that is usually fatal about 15 to 20 years after a patient is diagnosed. It is known ... | Genetics And Genomics ...

From understanding hereditary diseases to predicting drug responses, sequencing helps researchers uncover the subtle language ...

Gene editing is already being used to treat a handful of rare genetic diseases; however, most therapies involve breaking or ...

Cancer cells have special adaptation mechanisms that allow them to proliferate despite changes in their genetic makeup.

Cigarette smoke causes cancer primarily by damaging the DNA. A new study that mapped these damages has revealed that the way ...

Less than a month after researchers unveiled that a “ticking DNA clock” is behind Huntington’s disease (HD), scientists have ...

Once a cut is made, it is a multistep, imperfect process of cellular DNA repair. CRISPR can be used to make other types of edits too, such as increasing or decreasing the effects of a gene ...

Researchers from TMC and NIBMG have uncovered key genomic factors contributing to hormone treatment resistance in breast cancer. The study identifies mutations in three genes, DNA repair deficiencies, ...

Cigarette smoke causes cancer primarily by damaging the DNA. A new study that mapped the DNA damages caused by smoking, reveals that the way our DNA is organized and chemically modified can influence ...