For the first time, researchers at King's College London and the University of Florence have identified the specific genetic ...
A protective APOE gene variant is enriched in Super Agers—people over 80 who think like 50‑year‑olds—cutting Alzheimer’s risk ...
A paper published in Biology Methods and Protocols, indicates that a new computational method may help researchers identify ...
In 1933, geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for demonstrating that genes exist on chromosomes, which are passed down from parent to offspring. Ninety-one years ...
Experimental gene therapies like AMT‑130 lower toxic huntingtin protein and significantly slow Huntington’s disease, offering ...
A "gene silencer" (technically known as small interfering RNA, or siRNA), locally delivered by nanoparticles embedded in an ...
The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...
A team of researchers has conducted the largest and most comprehensive genome-wide association study (GWAS) to date of ...
In 2006, I attended the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Austin, Texas and listened to E. O. Wilson, the founder of sociobiology and one of the greatest biologists since ...
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Marvin Collins ’22, a bioengineering student, was balancing their Stanford classes from home in Alabama while also helping bioengineering professor ...