Gene therapy represents a paradigm shift in modern medicine, offering unprecedented opportunities to combat diseases at their ...

Dravet syndrome and other developmental epileptic encephalopathies are rare but devastating conditions that cause a host of ...

The SYNGAP1 gene, which supports the production of a protein called SynGAP (Synaptic Ras GTPase-Activating Protein), is known ...

A new study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in eliciting damages to neurons that are most vulnerable in Huntington's disease and ...

A combination of human pedigree analysis and fruit fly genetics has identified a gene variant that appears to prevent PIGA-CDG, a rare but serious seizure disorder. The findings could ultimately lead ...

Older women could be vulnerable to harmful inflammation from new gene therapies to treat incurable eye diseases, new research has found.

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene "silencer" that resides in junk DNA is directly sparing people from a devastating ...

This brought to mind an incident in my childhood. Glossophobia is the fear of public speaking. I experienced this early in my life, in Class 6. I was studying in Tamil medium but was prepared by ...

Genetics is the branch of science concerned with genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms. It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring, including ...

Emerging research highlights the complexities of cardiovascular medicine, particularly regarding the interplay between genetic predispositions, ...

Applying gene therapy to the rare diseases sector According to E UR ORDIS , a rare disease is defined in Europe as one affects less than one in 2000 people.