Lau compared the guide RNA to a global positioning system (GPS) that scans the genome and leads the Cas9 to cut DNA at a specific sequence, which can activate or deactivate specific genes.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Chicago Chess Records producer Gene Barge attends a screening of the film “Cadillac Records,” about ...

A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray. Analyzing a wealth of DNA collected from fossilized human bones, the researchers found that the first Indo-European speakers ...

Ancient DNA locates the geographic origin of Proto-Indo-Europeans and Proto-Anatolians and describes their early migrations out of the Caucasus Lower Volga and North Pontic regions of present-day ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a group of progressive lung diseases that obstruct airflow. You may experience breathing difficulties, but you can treat and even prevent flare-ups ...

Screen icon Gene Hackman turned 95 on January 30, kicking off another milestone year in the legendary actor's life. While the star has led his life away from the spotlight for the majority of the ...

Now, it appears his own genes may provide a new line of evidence. Lorente and his team of researchers claimed in the televised special that their analysis of Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA taken ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most widespread disabling neurological conditions of young adults around the world. It affects almost 1 million people in the United States, and about 2.9 ...

Dou explains. "Many of the known genetic mutations associated with Parkinson's disease are in non-coding regions of our DNA, and not in actual genes. We know that variants in noncoding regions can ...

Dou explains. “Many of the known genetic mutations associated with Parkinson's disease are in non-coding regions of our DNA, and not in actual genes. We know that variants in noncoding regions ...

Gene amplification is an increase in the number of copies of a gene without a proportional increase in other genes. This can result from duplication of a region of DNA that contains a gene through ...