Researchers have identified mutations in the non-coding gene RNU2-2 as a cause of a newly defined neurodevelopmental disorder ...

Eye cancer is an uncommon tumour that can affect the outer parts of the eye (like the eyelid) or the inside of the eyeball (intraocular cancer). The most common intraocular cancers in adults are ...

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 ...

2024 — Researchers restored hearing in preclinical mouse models with a specific form of inherited deafness called DFNA50 caused by mutations in microRNA, by using a novel in vivo CRISPR genome ...

Similar mechanisms may be at work in cancer and other genetic disorders. Many diseases are caused by genetic mutations that give rise to defective proteins, which can’t do their jobs properly. Based ...

Apr. 9, 2025 — Researchers have found a new role for the transcription factor (proteins that regulate the transcription, or copying, of genes). In the fruit fly, this transcription factor, named ...