The majority of rare diseases have a genetic cause. The underlying genetic alteration can be found more and more easily, for example by means of exome sequencing (ES), leading to a molecular genetic ...

In many aspects of our lives, we find meaning in the order in which events occur. We buy into myths about "middle child ...

Children and adults with rare, deadly genetic diseases have fresh hope for curative therapies, thanks to a new collaboration between the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) and Danaher Corporation, a ...

Last year, at the Open Day of the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), a biology research institute in Hyderabad, we administered a questionnaire to 78 students of Classes VIII-XII.

Though almost every cell in your body contains a copy of each of your genes, only a small fraction of these genes will be expressed, or turned on. These activations are controlled by specialized ...

Earlier this year, researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn created a first-of-its-kind drug customized to ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health challenge that affects more than 800 million people worldwide. 1 CKD can be caused by a variety of disease processes. Many causes are difficult to ...

Fresh from solving the protein structure challenge, Google’s deep-learning outfit is moving on to the human genome. Google DeepMind says it’s trained an artificial intelligence that can predict which ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a promising new approach that could be used to treat a rare and complex class of genetic diseases caused by defects in a relatively large ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a potent tool in identifying genetic mutations. By leveraging AI capabilities, scientists can rapidly and accurately analyze vast amounts of data. This ...