Heart attacks are often caused by conditions that affect electrical signaling in the heart. Genetic studies have linked two of these conditions, long QT syndrome and Brugada syndrome, to mutations in…

A new study finds that the inhibition of a particular mitochondrial fission protein, GTPase dynamin-related protein-1 – Drp1, could hold the key to treating Parkinson's Disease. Parkinson's Disease…

A new biology paper sheds light on how chromatin (the complex of DNA and proteins) is organized in a cell and how plants regulate genetic material, so that some genes are turned on and others are…

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)-derived cells are world's apart. iPSCs became a major research force because they are adult stem cells and lack the…

A team of scholars say genetic markers that may help in identifying individuals who could benefit from the alcoholism treatment drug acamprosate - patients carrying these genetic variants have longer…

Dalibor Levíček, CC BY-NC-SA By Mick Reed, University of New England The Jack the Ripper murders are the most potent cold case ever. More than a century on from the first killing in 1888 they are…

In 2013, when PLoS One published a research paper, Complete Genes May Pass from Food to Human Blood, anti-GMO activists claimed they had proof that GMOs can “transfer” into our bodies, and threaten…

There is concern about pollution, overfishing and even climate change when it comes to reduced wild fish populations. Farmed fish is the obvious solution but critics have a response for that also -…

Credit: SAN_DRINO/Flickr By Meredith Knight, Genetic Literacy Project Melinda developed breast cancer early in life, age 29. She tested positive for BRCA1, a gene that increases the risk of breast,…

Improve your eating habits and will improve your health, common medical wisdom goes. A new article in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology finds that we might as well keep eating poorly. They contend…