Anxiety may be controlled by a genetic 'switch'
An area in the human and mouse genome has been found to contain DNA that controls genes involved in anxiety...
by Jake Knox
An area in the human and mouse genome has been found to contain DNA that controls genes involved in anxiety...
New genetic markers that drive the development of type 2 diabetes and other vascular diseases have been identified...
by Olivia Goff
More than 200 new genes associated with depression have been identified in the first large-scale genome-wide association study to include participants from diverse ancestry groups...
The link between genetic variants, circulating blood protein levels and their association with disease was investigated in one of the largest studies to date...
A 'NICER' way to edit the genome has been discovered by scientists...
A gene linked with developing the condition long COVID, has been identified by a preliminary study...
A new genome editing mechanism has been developed for the first time from a protein found in eukaryotes...
by Hannah Flynn
Cells in early human embryos are unable to effectively repair the double-stranded DNA breaks made during CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing...
by Joel Mendes
Genetic variants linked to the timing of the onset of labour have been identified, and suggest a tug-of-war between the effects of genes expressed by the mother and those by the fetus...
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