Deficiency of the pancreatic progenitor cell differentiation and proliferation factor gene was identified as a risk factor ...

Following the firm’s bankruptcy, researchers hope that they will be able to continue accessing the valuable data set even if it is sold to new owners.

An R75W mutation in the gap junction β2 (GJB2) gene causes severe fragmentation of gap junction plaques, connecting adjacent ...

Marek's disease can be pervasive in chicken houses. Chickens infected by this highly contagious viral disease often develop ...

Patients with Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy with particular genetic markers are at higher risk for surgery and vision loss.

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

By Victor Mather A prince of Luxembourg has died at 22 of a genetic disease for which he spent his brief life raising awareness. Prince Frederik, the second cousin of the heir to the Luxembourg ...

Tyron Molteni - stock.adobe.com Men have an X and a Y chromosome, while women have two X chromosomes. Scientists have long dismissed one of the female X chromosomes as largely inactive ...

Marcela Henao-Tamayo receives funding from NIAID, NIH and OEDIT. An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

Brain cells, or oligodendrocytes (green), in the hippocampus are marked with the GFP genetic marker in the mouse brain ... Coulter Endowed Chair in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease at UCSF. She is ...

In a surprise, work in mice has found that the dormant X chromosome in females can reawaken ... Coulter Endowed Chair in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease at UCSF. She is the senior author ...

Researchers show that transposons can target and insert themselves at the ends of linear chromosomes, called telomeres, within their bacterial host. In Streptomyces -- historically one of the most ...