Low doses of a drug already approved for treating rare genetic conditions in humans kills mosquitoes dead. Scientists say it ...

Nitisinone, a drug that is already used to treat two genetic diseases, could be repurposed to control the spread of malaria, ...

To perform this analysis for millions of domains, Beltran and the team relied on the genetic amenability of yeast ... variants that destabilize proteins are more likely to cause diseases. Human ...

Presymptomatic testing for Huntington disease (HD) has been available for much longer than testing for most other human genetic diseases. A cross-sectional survey addressing perceived genetic ...

Mutations in this sequence cause thousands of human diseases, yet until recently ... “Being able to use genome editing to ...

The scientists studied 60 genes in the fruit flies that they believed might play a role in Alzheimer’s. Out of those, 46 ...

GenomeIndia project publishes preliminary findings from sequencing 10,000 Indian genomes, highlighting unique genetic ...

“Our study reveals that a combination of genetic factors plays a role in the manifestation of diseases like Parkinson’s ...

The differences identified in the disease group could point to genetic variants that increase risk for that disease and warrant further study. Most human diseases—including asthma—are not caused by a ...

A high genetic predisposition to sedentary behavior can increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases by up to 20% ... has long been a survival need in human history, which is why humans would ...

In the future, this method could allow for genomic research on a mass scale, and help interpret the risk associated with different genetic variants for diseases ... same time in human cells ...

Genetic engineering in non-human primates ... Small animal models such as mice do not fully replicate the complexity of human diseases, particularly in areas like infectious disease and ...