New research shows it’s possible to edit the DNA of human embryos with more precision. But scientists warn it’s still not ...

Abraham Lincoln, for one, may have had the syndrome—and are at very high risk of a kind of fatal rupture in the heart.

Researchers and medical experts have long tried to understand why some viruses remain harmless in animals while others jump ...

Studies of genetics conducted in yeast cells, human neurons, mice or other model systems often reveal networks of genes that could contribute to complex diseases, such as breast cancer, type 2 ...

ARPA-H gene editing program THRIVE awards $160 million to seven research teams tasked with building scalable base-editing ...

In people with severely compromised immune systems, JC polyomavirus can trigger an untreatable, often fatal brain disease. An ...

A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

A study led by the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), working in collaboration with an ...

Scientists at the University of California San Diego have uncovered how genetic mutations cause a rare group of inherited neuromuscular disorders and identified promising new strategies to correct ...

We have identified the gene that, when activated, initiates the developmental programme that results in cells forming a human ...

The Ara Parseghian Medical Research Fund will provide financial backing for the multi-year research effort.

Most animal viruses never become pandemics because they must overcome multiple barriers, including receptor mismatch, immune ...