Gene therapies to treat rheumatoid arthritis have evolved slowly, but one is ready to move into human trials and an ...

Racial disparities in mortality are increasing. This article explores how the production of DNA-edited ethnically diverse ...

A University of Ottawa neuroscientist has led a Canadian research team to reveal important new insights into the activation ...

Researchers have identified a method to enhance the effectiveness of a promising cancer treatment. They found that modifying ...

Understanding how cells transform into specialized types during human development is a central challenge in biology. This ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed into mRNA precursors, is correctly assembled into mature mRNA. Splicing is a ...

UMD researchers have discovered key mechanisms in gene regulation that could improve the design of RNA-based medicines.