Researchers said their discovery of nine 'core' genes central to the development of type 1 diabetes could unlock new immune system pathways for targeting by immunotherapies. A team from the University ...

Some people have a greater genetic risk than others of developing type 2 diabetes. Now, more of these at-risk people are ...

In a demonstration that could help pave the way for gene therapies with fewer side effects, several human cell types have ...

An international study co-led by researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Helmholtz Munich in Germany has uncovered hundreds of genes and proteins likely to play a causal role in ...

Nature and nurture both determine how likely you are to develop a particular disease. Hiroshi Watanabe/DigitalVision via Getty Images Sitting in my doctor’s examination room, I was surprised when she ...

Missing genes and sequencing read registration in single-cell RNA-seq experiments. Credit: Nature Methods (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41592-023-02003-w In 2018, researchers in the Caltech laboratory of Yuki ...

Advances in human genetics have enabled the investigation of the genetic architecture underlying numerous complex traits. Many publicly available databases establish a binary relationship between ...

Some viruses that make us sick are cleared by the immune system within days, while others lurk in our bodies for a lifetime ...

Research uncovering the origin of pineoblastoma, a rare pediatric brain tumor, has also revealed a dependency across multiple brain tumor types that share a similar molecular program. Scientists at St ...

Researchers at Northwestern University have built a new type of nanoparticle that triples the efficiency of CRISPR gene ...