Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

A systematic review of 52 scientific papers submitted to a world-leading clinical genetics journal from multiple scientists ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal viruses become capable of sparking human epidemics and pandemics. Using a ...

A new study isolated DNA from the tumours of 500 cats across 13 different tumour types and mapped the sequence of 1,000 genes often found mutated in human cancers.

A gardener's rare rose bloom is a gorgeous and unique combination of colors, and it turns out there's a scientific ...

Researchers have discovered a new way to increase a key brain protein damaged in Rett syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that affects thousands of children worldwide. Early studies in mice and ...

A new gene-targeting strategy that boosts a crucial brain protein could pave the way for the first effective treatment for ...

The drug was finally approved in September 2025 through the FDA’s accelerated approval pathway, based on improvement in knee extensor muscle strength, for adults and children with Barth syndrome who ...

Analysing the births of a Utah family over seven generations has revealed that their disproportionate number of boys could be caused by a selfish Y chromosome ...

This work lays the foundation and provides preclinical evidence for a therapeutic approach for Rett syndrome that confers functional improvement in animal models and human cells.

This Ice Age pair of hunter-gatherers were both shorter than average for their population – one of them markedly so – and now we finally know why. A team of researchers from Europe re-examined the ...

For too long, the promise of personalized therapies has been tantalizingly close, yet frustratingly out of reach for ...