Non-protein-coding genes have been linked to a hereditary condition, retinitis pigmentosa, that causes progressive blindness.
A comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes has just been completed and released. Researchers used large-scale evolutionary modeling to integrate data on ...
Understanding human gene function in living organisms has long been hampered by fundamental differences between species.
Humanized mouse models are essential for investigating human gene function; however, the complete replacement of mouse genes ...
A research team led by Zhiping Weng, Ph.D., and Jill Moore, Ph.D."18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the ...
On Monday, the Nobel Committee announced that two US researchers, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, will receive the prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of a previously unknown mechanism ...