This important study advances a new computational approach to measure and visualize gene expression specificity across different tissues and cell types. The framework is potentially helpful for ...

Though many studies approach the developmental disorder Rett syndrome as a single condition arising from general loss of ...

Remarkably, 98 percent of our DNA does not code for genes. Once considered “junk DNA,” it is now well appreciated that these ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

A study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health reports a major advance in understanding how interactions ...

Researchers say a new AI system can identify disease-causing mutations and explain their biological effects, potentially ...

What causes autoimmune disease? A new study finds that somatic mutations in immune checkpoint genes like PDL1 trigger the ...

The following day, research supported by another company, Actuate Therapeutics, was published in Nature Medicine showing that ...

New research suggests that autoimmune diseases may be driven by DNA mutations in immune cells that remove the natural brakes ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

New research suggests that autoimmune diseases may be driven by DNA mutations in immune cells that remove the natural brakes on the immune system. It reveals a previously hidden role for somatic ...

A graduate student at Fred Hutch Cancer Center has produced a near real-time picture of how well the human immune system is ...