What do your genes have to do with growing old? Quite a lot. But is it due to the actual DNA, or the way those genes are expressed? KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge has more on new research that ...

Much of the phenotypic variation that is observed within and between species is the result of differences in gene regulation: specifically when, where and how much the genes are expressed. Given the ...

Mapping diverse mutations within a cancer hotspot revealed that distinct variants drive tumor growth to different extents, which could guide anticancer therapies.

In a lab-grown cell study focused on potential new treatment targets for halting the spread of most pancreatic cancers, Johns ...

For decades, biologists have known that the instructions for life are written in DNA, yet the vast majority of those letters seemed to sit in the dark, doing little that was obvious. Now a new ...

Artificial intelligence-based prediction of claudin 18.2 expression and immune phenotype to guide treatment decisions in patients with gastric cancer.

Researchers in the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) examined the genetics of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by analyzing mutations in the genomes of individuals and their families. They discovered ...

Epigenetics is the study of various heritable alterations that control gene expression without changing the DNA sequence. 1 The name epigenetics comes from the Greek prefix “epi”, which means on top ...

XGOF network construction for GI cancers. (A) The number of GO term pairs for six types of GI cancers. (B) Top 20 immune-related GO terms for GI cancers. The fan area represents the correlation ...

New AAV therapy for retinitis pigmentosa completes Phase I/II dosing, aiming to protect cones and slow vision loss; first ...