Tag: Genetics

Hirschsprung disease - a rare condition where the failure of gut nerves to develop before birth leads to impaired bowel ...

Shutting down deadly pediatric brain cancer at its earliest moments

Study uses cell-by-cell analyses to look for new therapies that might workCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI -- Cell-by-cell genetic analyses of ...

Multiple Denisovan-related ancestries in Papuans

DNA sequences from Indonesia and New Guinea reveal new branches of the Denisovan family treeCredit: © Isabella Apriyana The findings ...

CNIO researchers succeed at removing some types of pancreatic cancer in animal models

Researchers from the Experimental Oncology Group, led by Mariano Barbacid at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), have published ...

CNIO researchers assess melanoma progression with a new liquid biopsy technique

Credit: CNIO When the surgeon surgically removes a melanoma, some patients are said to be 'cancer-free' and they do not ...

New cancer drug targets accelerate path to precision medicine

Researchers used CRISPR technology to disrupt every gene in over 300 cancer models from 30 cancer types and discover thousands ...

Loss of a DNA repair system creates a unique vulnerability in many cancer types

Cancer cells that cannot repair a certain form of DNA mutation become strongly dependent on single enzyme to survive, creating ...

ASHG launches Human Genetics Scholars Initiative

Program to increase, network, mentor, and retain diverse early-career researchers ROCKVILLE, Md. - The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) ...

When do male and female differences appear in the development of beetle horns

Credit: NIBB The male Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus, living on Japan's main island has big horns, which are used ...

Novel strategy hits ‘reset button’ for disease-causing genetic duplications

WORCESTER -- Scientists at UMass Medical School have developed a strategy for editing and repairing a particular type of genetic ...

Long-lived bats could hold secrets to mammal longevity

UMD biologists found four bat lineages that live at least four times longer than similar-sized mammals and revealed new traits ...

Half-hearted: New insight into why the heart doesn’t develop properly in some children

Right-sided heart development requires rapid growth of precursor cells; silencing the gene Ccdc117 may impede that growth, leading to abnormal ...

Gene responsible for toxic metal accumulation in durum wheat identified

Researchers complete genome assembly of durum wheat, identify gene responsible for cadmium accumulation University of Alberta biologists identify gene responsible ...

Scientists identify a key gene in the transmission of deadly African sleeping sickness