Avilar Therapeutics appointed Leslie Meltzer as its third CEO in five years, emphasizing her acquisition expertise over ...

The 2026 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists – Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and ...

Scientists have discovered a human gene with a remarkable double life: it appears to play an important role in brain cells while still retaining the ability to jump around the genome. Called BC200, ...

Called PASCode and iBrainMap, and published recently in Nature Medicine and Nature Communications, respectively, the new ...

Scientists have discovered a powerful gene-targeting system in viruses. Billions of years old, VIPR seems to predate CRISPR and may be even more effective. By Carl Zimmer Over the past decade, the ...

Scientists from Gladstone Institutes, UC San Francisco and Stanford University, in collaboration with Biohub, have unveiled a massive, high-resolution functional map of human immune cells that ...

Scientists have revealed the DNA sequence code of the “initiator,” a crucial sequence that kick-starts gene activation. A machine learning analysis of a half million experimental data points yielded ...

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An experimental gene therapy appears safe and highly effective for restoring hearing to people born with a rare form of deafness, researchers reported Wednesday. The study, the largest and longest to ...

A transformative advancement in plant genomics has paved the way for unraveling ancient regulatory elements that govern plant development, tracing their origins back over 300 million years. This ...

The authors describe the scientific foundations of a study of gene therapy for hearing loss caused by damaging variants in the gene OTOF. Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, ...

DNA is the blueprint of life. Genes encode proteins and serve as the body's basic components. However, building a functioning organism also requires precise instructions about when, where, and how ...