Some 17 million Americans are living with genetic mutations tied to an increased risk of getting cancer, Cleveland Clinic ...

In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefitted one child. Now reseachers plan to launch a clinical trial of the ...

Scientists have identified mutations in the CPD gene as a key cause of a rare congenital hearing loss, revealing how ...

New research published in Nature Communications into hidden mutations in mitochondrial DNA has uncovered how high mutational levels coincide with later life and link to aging markers. Mitochondria are ...

Dear D.M.: FVL is an inherited genetic condition that somewhat predisposes people to excess blood clotting. It is very common ...

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...

Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), small pieces of DNA released from dying tumor cells into the bloodstream, can be easily and non-invasively identified and examined through a simple blood test. This ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a revolutionary gene-editing method using bacterial retrons ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) report that the ...

Because the new method can replace a large stretch of defective DNA with a healthy sequence, the same retron-based package can fix any combination of mutations within that stretch of DNA without ...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) emerged in the US about 15 years ago as an exciting class of cancer treatments that have ...

A gene mutation known to develop into one of Queensland’s deadliest cancers could be hiding in skin undetected.