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

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

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

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 ...

As well as being essential in the precise packaging of DNA into the space of the nucleus, histone proteins are also the site ...

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

For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them.

Published in Molecular Psychiatry, this study is based on epigenetics, the study of how environmental factors can influence gene expression without altering the DNA itself. Rather than altering ...

This happens through a process called epigenetics, whereby certain genes are expressed to a greater or lesser extent depending on a person’s surroundings. Abused children, for instance ...

A team of investigators from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Google, and Columbia University have created an artificial intelligence model that can predict which ...