DOE national laboratory scientists led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed the first tree dataset of its kind, bridging molecula...

Image Credit:  Sinousxl A new approach to analyzing exome sequencing data reliably detects large-scale genetic changes and could reduce the ...

The anchor points present on the surface of the airways in cystic fibrosis (left image, in red) decrease when the balance between the two ce...

A new sunflower family tree reveals that flower symmetry evolved multiple times independently. Chrysanthemum lavandulifolium, on the upper l...

cientists would like to know how cysts form in polycystic kidney disease (PKD). Here, they compared two 3-D mini-kidney models. On the left,...

Photo Credit:  Mart Production The discovery of rare variants in the genes BSN and APBA1 are some of the first obesity-related genes identif...

Photo Credit:  Angiola Harry Everyone has BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, but mutations in these genes - which can be inherited - increase the risk o...

UC San Diego researchers have created a new system that reveals specific categories of potentially risky mutations resulting from CRISPR edi...

Photo Credit:  Edward Jenner University of Queensland researchers have developed a method to predict if a child is likely to develop sepsis ...

Professor John Sayer “What we are now able to do is give some patients a precise diagnosis, which allows their investigations, treatment and...

Illustration Credit: Ricardo Job-Reese, Broad Communications. Researchers have developed statistical tools called polygenic risk scores (PRS...

Image Credit: AI generated / Gemini Advance Genes expressed in human cells harvested from urine are remarkably similar to those of the kidne...

Additional genetic testing could make bone marrow donations even safer. Image Credit:  Gerd Altmann A stem cell donation saves a leukemia su...

“Both APOBEC3A and APOBEC3B were known to generate mutations in many kinds of tumors, but until now we did not know how to identify the spec...

Prompts by Scientific Frontline Image Credit: AI Generated by Copilot / Designer / DALL-E 3 The blue whale genome was published in the journ...

Using a variant of CRISPR genome-editing known as prime editing, MIT researchers have developed a method to screen cancer-associated genetic...

Image Credit Copilot AI Generated A ground-breaking research study has used AI to understand the genetic underpinning of the heart’s left ve...

Ole Nørregaard Jensen is a professor and head of research at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Photo Credit: Stefan Kris...

Brookhaven Lab biologist Meng Xie and postdoctoral fellow Dimiru Tadesse with sorghum plants like those used in this study. Note that these ...

Structural comparison of DNA and the artificial TNA, a Xeno nucleic acid with the natural base pairs AT and GC and an additional base pair (...