HYDERABAD: In a significant breakthrough for rare disease research in India, doctors at the LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) have uncovered new genetic causes behind severe eye damage in patients with ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

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How much of our genome really matters? Some argue that because most of our DNA is active, it must be doing something important. Others say even random DNA would be highly active. This has now been put ...

Medical scientist Eduardo Marbán – then at Johns Hopkins and now Cedars-Sinai – found that heart progenitor cells also have a special mechanism where they send out sacs, known as exosomes, which carry ...

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"We just want to give them a normal childhood,” said dad Nick Walker GoFundMe Two young sisters have a one-in-one-million condition that prevents them from going out in the sun After four years of ...