The ability of different genetic variants—changes to one or more building blocks of DNA—to cause disease, and to what extent, ...

A newly identified gene mutation may help explain why schizophrenia patients struggle to update their understanding of ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have used a next-generation form of gene editing to fix the underlying cause of a severe form of epilepsy in lab mice.

Factoring out nucleotide-level mutation biases from antibody language models dramatically improves prediction of functional mutation effects while reducing computational cost by orders of magnitude.

Every few months for the past three years, Jeff Vierstra has been receiving infusions in his spine that target and disable a ...

Can zebrafish help find autism treatments? Scientists used pharmaco-behavioral profiling to identify FDA-approved drugs, like levocarnitine, that reverse autism-related behaviors in zebrafish.

A fresh and important book reveals the messy reality of our ever-mutating cells – and why the quest to defeat ageing is ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism by which inherited calcium ...

The PLN gene mutation causes heart failure and sudden cardiac death. Experts say West Michigan's Dutch community could be ...