Genetic variants believed to cause blindness in nearly everyone who carries them actually lead to vision loss less than 30% ...

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

Attention can feel like a fragile thing, especially when your brain struggles to sort signal from noise. Every second, your ...

A research team led by Zhiping Weng, Ph.D., and Jill Moore, Ph.D."18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the ...

Dopamine in the brain influences movement, learning, motivation and sleep. In humans, problems with dopamine are linked to ...

Some DNA passed down from ancient hunter-gatherers has been found to be a crucial force in living to be 100 years old.

A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child with a rare genetic disorder. Unlike earlier ...

By Karen Roman Biopharmaceutical company Medera Inc. said it completed patient enrollment for Cohort B of its clinical trial ...

Orphan Drug Designation applies to approximately 50,000 Patients who predominantly suffer from severe chronic pain due to ...

CDKL5, one of the five members of the CDKL family of genes, is important for proper neurodevelopment and associated with seizures. However, the role the other four members of this family play in ...

Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...