A review article led by researchers from the B·ARGO group at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) and from the Medical Oncology Department of the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) in ...

Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have discovered how a mutated gene kicks off a dangerous chain of events during blood cell production. "We know that many diseases—and all cancers ...

据外媒报道，欧洲一名匿名捐精者促成至少197名儿童的诞生，然而，后来查出，捐精者部分精子有致癌基因。近日的调查显示，一部分孩子已确诊癌症且不幸死亡。 Sperm from a donor who unknowingly carried a ...

令人痛心的是，截至目前，这197名儿童中已有67人被确诊患有癌症，其中10名幼童已不幸夭折。调查发现，该捐精者携带的TP53基因突变会引发李-佛美尼综合征，这种遗传病会让患者在幼年时期就面临极高的患癌风险，且癌症类型多为恶性。

For the first time, scientists have discovered how a gene mutation can cause heart disease in adults despite normal cholesterol levels and no other risk factors. Researchers at the University of Texas ...

Hataalii Begay, age 4, is the first child to receive a new stem cell treatment for Artemis-SCID. Image by Laverna Shorty The parents of children born with a rare and deadly condition have new reason ...

A genetic mutation passed from mother to children in families affected by schizophrenia has now been shown to completely ...

Nearly 1 in 7 adults in the United States lives with chronic kidney disease, a condition that often advances quietly until ...

Imagine getting only a few hours of sleep and being raring to go the next day. A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows the discovery of a gene ...

A vanishingly rare genetic glitch in a single enzyme can erase a newborn’s brain cells in a matter of weeks, leaving doctors with almost no way to intervene. Researchers have now traced that ...