From single DNA letter swaps to hidden non-coding tweaks, mutations can rewire how our bodies work—sometimes in life-changing ways. Scientists are uncovering how these changes influence protein ...

Learn how small mutations in non-coding DNA can alter sex development in rodents.

Researchers at Bar-Ilan University have discovered that changing just one letter in DNA can completely alter sex development in mice. In the new study, published in Nature Communications, a ...

Scientists have found new genetic causes for diabetes in babies - in a part of the genome that has historically been overlooked in genetic studies. Until recently, most research has investigated ...

Researchers have used saturation genome editing to test every variant in the non coding gene RNU4 2, revealing new pathogenic ...

Female mouse embryos with a single letter change in a specific region of their DNA develop male reproductive organs, finds a study 1 published today in Nature Communications. Typically, female mouse ...

A single DNA letter, inserted into a stretch of the genome that doesn’t code for any protein, was enough to turn genetically female mouse embryos into anatomically male mice. The experiment, published ...

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

Scientists have uncovered new genetic causes of diabetes in infants, pointing to a region of the genome that has long been ...

Scientists are celebrating DNA Day, marking the completion of the human genome project in 2003. The project successfully ...

Kahimmune Therapeutics has signed a scientific collaboration agreement with Gustave Roussy to support the selection and ...

A diagram of the DRT3 system, showing Drt3a in yellow and Drt3b in blue. (Hyunbin Lee) Scientists have just discovered an ...