Eye contact helps build trust and communication whether in business, friendships or romantic pursuits. Its importance in human socialization means that we're more likely to take note of eye color and ...

Study finds surprising way that genetic mutation causes Huntington's disease, transforming understanding of the disorder Researchers studying brain cells from Huntington's patients show that the ...

Dravet syndrome and other developmental epileptic encephalopathies are rare but devastating conditions that cause a host of ...

In a family of 15 people in northern Italy, six developed late-onset Alzheimer’s disease – and when researchers ran genetic tests, all six had a rare mutation in a protein-coding gene known as ...

New findings from researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have clarified the interplay between two major molecular contributors to aging: genetic mutations and ...

A study in the journal Pharmaceuticals has uncovered how specific genetic mutations in α2δ-1 and α2δ-3 proteins linked to autism spectrum disorders (ASD) alter neuronal functionality.

Even though a large proportion of cancer patients carry genetic mutations that make them more susceptible to cancer, only a small percentage of them — and their family members — undergo ...

Their findings, published in Nature Aging, describe a never-before-seen link between the two most accepted explanations: random genetic mutations and predictable epigenetic modifications.

SINGAPORE - Patients with hereditary eye conditions now have a dedicated ... Monogenic conditions are caused by a single gene mutation. Access to genetic testing brings with it several advantages ...

Bored Panda has tracked down a bunch of photos of animals who aren’t letting genetic mutations stand in their ... included "white lions with pale blue eyes, black impalas, white kudus, and ...

It is usually bilateral, involving both eyes. Everybody’s eyes contain ... This was used to correct the mutation in the ABCA4 gene that causes the disease. ‘ Their study, ‘High-efficiency ...

Older women could be vulnerable to harmful inflammation from new gene therapies to treat incurable eye diseases, new research has found. The University of Bristol-led study, published in Molecular ...