Common gene variant linked to higher heart disease risk in people with African ancestry

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), a leading cause of heart failure, is twice as common in Black individuals as in white ...

FDA Clears Way for Faster Personalized Gene Editing Therapy

A top US regulator plans to unveil a faster approach to approving custom gene-editing treatments, a move designed to unleash a wave of industry investment that will yield cures for patients with rare ...

3D DNA looping discovery in rice paves the way for higher yields with less fertilizer

A team of Chinese scientists has uncovered a hidden 3D structure in rice DNA that allows the crop to grow more grain while ...

How missing nutrients rewire fly brains to seek out beneficial microbes

New research from the Champalimaud Foundation (CF) reveals how missing just one essential amino acid can change gene ...
eLife

CellCover Defines Marker Gene Panels Capturing Developmental Progression in Neocortical Neural Stem Cell Identity

This study offers a valuable methodological advance by introducing a gene panel selection approach that captures combinatorial specificity to define cell identity. The findings address key limitations ...
eLife

Abundant Parent-of-origin Effect eQTL: The Framingham Heart Study

This important study provides a systematic investigation of parent-of-origin (POE) effects on gene expression using large trio-based data from the Framingham Heart Study, uncovering thousands of ...
Today's Dietitian

What’s New in Nutrient-Gene Interactions

There’s 99.9% similarity across human genomes, with the remaining 0.1% variation being what makes each person unique.1 In ...

A new system can dial expression of synthetic genes up or down

For decades, synthetic biologists have been developing gene circuits that can be transferred into cells for applications such as reprogramming a stem cell into a neuron or generating a protein that ...