Abraham Lincoln, for one, may have had the syndrome—and are at very high risk of a kind of fatal rupture in the heart.

Plant genetic engineering for biofuel production seeks to redesign the composition and structure of plant biomass to reduce the energetic and chemical inputs required for conversion into liquid fuels.

Physician and molecular biologist Katherine High remembers sitting at a staff meeting of the gene therapy company Spark Therapeutics on November 15, 2018, waiting to hear from a guest speaker, when ...

Xeroderma pigmentosum is a rare autosomal recessive disorder arising from inherited defects in DNA repair pathways responsible for removing ultraviolet-induced lesions. Mutations in any of eight ...

The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first gene therapy for inherited hearing loss, a one-time treatment that proved to be life-changing for a small number of children in a ...

An experimental gene therapy appears safe and highly effective for restoring hearing to people born with a rare form of deafness, researchers reported Wednesday. The study, the largest and longest to ...

Psychiatric disorders, such as bipolar disorder (BD), major depressive disorder (MDD), schizophrenia and anxiety disorders, adversely affect the daily functioning and well-being of millions of people ...

The authors describe the scientific foundations of a study of gene therapy for hearing loss caused by damaging variants in the gene OTOF. Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, ...

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A person’s genes play a far greater role in likely lifespan than previously thought, according to a major new study published Thursday in the journal Science. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News ...

Three decades ago a famous study of Danish twins found that our genes “only moderately” influence how long we’re likely to live. Longevity, the authors estimated, was about 25 percent heritable, ...

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