New research shows that neurons can stabilize their signaling using a fast, physical mechanism — not the electrical activity ...

The gene therapies for cardiomyopathies market is poised for strong growth as advancements in genomic medicine accelerate the ...

Every movement you make and every memory you form depends on precise communication between neurons. When that communication is disrupted, the brain must rapidly rebalance its internal signaling to ...

Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is an aggressive malignancy with limited therapeutic options. Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase ...

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the 'dark ...

The rollout of a type of genetic technology called a gene drive for tackling malaria could be edging closer after a lab study ...

Arpita Bose and Zhecheng Zhang explore genetic tools in environmental microbes, citing applications in extracellular electron transfer ...

A Philadelphia-area infant named Baby KJ made international headlines after doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Medicine successfully treated his rare, life-threatening liver ...

UCSF’s Program in Craniofacial Biology (PCB) brings together researchers to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms ...

The field of dermatology has witnessed remarkable progress in the prevention and treatment of skin diseases over the past ...

This year, gene-editing technology was customized to fix mutations in a single patient’s genes for the first time.

When blood cancer in children progresses particularly aggressively, it is often due to a genetic defect: a gene fusion, such ...