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A new CRISPR approach can control genes without cutting DNA, opening a safer path for treating genetic diseases. A newly ...

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From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body’s typically efficient DNA repair machinery and potentially affecting our health ...

In a recent study published in Nature Genetics, a group of researchers advanced variant effect prediction across the human proteome by integrating deep evolutionary signals with human population ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, researchers in Switzerland used base and prime editing to create and analyze a wide array of variants of the epithelial growth factor ...

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CHARGE syndrome is a complex congenital disorder that presents with a spectrum of multisystem anomalies, including ocular coloboma, choanal atresia, congenital heart defects, and ear malformations, as ...

The new analysis study showed the delay may stem from genetic mutations that are present when a child is born – but activate ...