This Gene Mutation Breaks the Immune System. Why Has It Survived?
In Greenland in January 2021, a child just under two years old was sick—very sick. And his doctors couldn’t figure out why. He was feverish, vomiting, having…
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Autism-Linked Gene Mutation Reversed Using Lab-Grown Brain Experiment
Autism, a development disorder, can end up impairing a person's ability to communicate and interact. It affects the nervous system and affects cognitive,…
A single gene controls species diversity in an ecosystem
More than 50 years ago on the shoreline of a rocky tide pool, the US ecologist Robert Paine found out that the removal of a single species from an ecosystem…
Gene losses allow vampire bats to live solely on a diet of blood
While bats have been closely associated with vampires for centuries, there are actually only three species of bats that drink blood. Most of them eat fruits,…
An ‘oracle’ for predicting the evolution of gene regulation
Computational biologists have created a neural network model capable of predicting how changes to non-coding DNA sequences in yeast affect gene expression.…
A gene could prevent Parkinson’s disease
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the destruction of a specific population of neurons: the dopaminergic neurons. The…
Gene editing gets safer thanks to redesigned Cas9 protein
Scientists have redesigned a key component of a widely used CRISPR-based gene-editing tool, called Cas9, to be thousands of times less likely to target the…
Crispr Patent Ruling Picks Winners in Dispute Over Gene-Editing Technology
In the latest twist in a long-running legal dispute over a popular gene-editing tool, U.S. patent authorities ruled that the Broad Institute deserves the…
A Gene Sequencing Pioneer Battles Over What It Can Buy
Illumina, the leading maker of gene-sequencing machines, is tiny compared with the tech giants of Silicon Valley. But like Google and Facebook, Illumina now…
Mumbai startup develops universal infectious diseases gene test
Mumbai-based health-tech startup HaystackAnalytics has developed the first of its kind universal infectious diseases (ID) gene test to identify existing and…