Life Sciences Center (LSC) have discovered a unique way for cells to silence specific genes without cutting DNA. This ...

The familial trend, it turned out, was linked to a genetic mutation. That meant Bill might also be at risk for the disease.

In recent years, scientists have created a range of new methods based on CRISPR-Cas technology for precisely editing the ...

Genes contain instructions for making proteins, and a central dogma of biology is that this information flows from DNA to RNA ...

Geneticists looking inside the nuclear genome for mutations that contribute to disease have long relied on a principal known ...

The parts of a DNA molecule that have these instructions are called genes. An individual's genome is the sum total of their ...

Scientists have identified a relationship between ancient viral DNA and susceptibility to neurodegenerative diseases like ...

Altered activity of ancient viral genes were linked to neurodegenerative diseases including ALS in a recent analysis.

Scientists at Vilnius University have developed a novel gene silencing method using a type IV-A CRISPR system that silences ...

"Genes move differently ... micrometers in diameter -- or 100,000 times smaller than the length of the genome's DNA. The DNA molecule encodes information for all cellular processes and functions ...