It took a while for the science to basically catch up to that suspicion.” In these types of “recessive” conditions, the ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered how a gene mutation can cause heart disease in adults despite normal cholesterol levels and no other risk factors. Researchers at the University of Texas ...

UCLA researchers have developed a lipid nanoparticle-based gene-editing approach capable of inserting an entire healthy gene ...

Neuroscience rarely enjoys clean experiments. Most brain disorders are mosaics of risk genes, aging, lifestyle and chance that leave their origins obscured. Huntington's disease (HD) is different. It ...

Neurologists have discovered a genetic mutation that may protect the brain from dementia. Francisco Lopera, a researcher at the University of Antioquia in Colombia, has spent almost forty years ...

Parkinson's disease researchers say they have discovered a genetic mutation in a small protein that could produce new treatments for the debilitating brain disorder. Chinnapong - stock.adobe.com ...

In two separate studies, German researchers have identified the single-gene mutation that can lead to the incurable autoimmune disease lupus. The discovery opens the door to developing new therapeutic ...

The DNA damage from ionizing radiation (IR) erupting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 is showing up in the ...

Dominika Pilat, PhD, and Ana Griciuc, PhD, of the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital are the lead and senior authors of a paper published in Neuron, "The Gain-of-Function ...

A hallmark of Parkinson's disease is the buildup of Lewy bodies—misfolded clumps of the protein known as alpha-synuclein.

Now, more than two decades later, researchers homed in on a mutation in the gene zinc finger homeobox protein 3 (ZFHX3), a transcriptional regulator that seems to mess with a cell’s ability to perform ...

Scientists have discovered a rare mutation that may halve the risk of Parkinson's disease. The study from the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, in California, published in the journal Molecular ...