As Americans cross their fingers, hoping the pandemic stays behind them, scientists across the country remain focused on the novel coronavirus, intent on combating its next move.
Mar 28, 2022
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New opportunities towards gene therapy and diagnosis for the blinding eye disease, retinal dystrophy, may now become available following work done by the Eye Genetics Research Unit at Children's Medical Research Institute.
Mar 22, 2022
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A study from the University of Kansas recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Brain Sciences identifies a new gene target related to specific language impairment (SLI).
Mar 15, 2022
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Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered functional links between dozens of potassium channel gene variants and neonatal epilepsy, according to a study published in JCI Insight.
Mar 7, 2022
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A pioneering new study led by UCL and National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists has revealed, for the first time, why a common genetic variant worsens disease outcomes for people with the devastating adult-onset neurodegenerative ...
Feb 23, 2022
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Broad scientists analyzed sequencing data from more than 200,000 people and found rare genetic variants associated with diseases like diabetes and heart failure.
Feb 23, 2022
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Gene variants increased the risk of acute kidney injury and death in veterans of African ancestry who were hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Feb 10, 2022
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By sequencing known genes associated with cardiac arrhythmia risk in more than 20,000 people without an indication for genetic testing, scientists were able to identify pathogenic and likely pathogenic variants in nearly ...
Feb 10, 2022
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A genome study undertaken by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers to look for variants in a gene considered a fundamental building block for microscopic structures that synthesize proteins took a surprising twist.
Feb 2, 2022
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A team of researchers at genomics and biotechnology company 23andMe have found that people with a certain genetic locus are 11% more likely to lose the ability to smell or taste due to a COVID-19 infection. In their paper ...
