The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

GENE202 is a single dose gene therapy for patients with rare metabolic disease, methylmalonic acidaemia.

A "gene silencer" (technically known as small interfering RNA, or siRNA), locally delivered by nanoparticles embedded in an ...

Alzheimer’s may be driven far more by genetics than previously thought, with one gene playing an outsized role. Researchers ...

An epidemiology study finds variations in one gene, APOE, play a major role in determining the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

Food made from pigs engineered to be resistant to a porcine virus are as safe and nutritious to eat as pork currently on the ...

No gene acts alone: interacting variants and protein partnerships can worsen, mask or even rescue disease risk, demanding ...

When two defective gene variants combine, normal protein function can sometimes be restored.

A new genetic mapping strategy reveals how entire networks of genes work together to cause disease, filling in the missing links left by traditional genetic studies. The technique could transform how ...

An estimated 3 million Americans have an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. But ...

Patients will be able to find out whether they have genes linked to cancer using a world-leading tool developed by the NHS.

NHS England to develop ‘world-first’ database for genes linked to cancer - The health service is developing a register of 120 ...