Background The role of physical activity in the risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is debated. It is also unclear whether the association differs in people at high genetic risk of ALS.

Neuromuscular and peripheral nerve diseases represent a diverse group of debilitating conditions that compromise motor and sensory function, often leading ...

The startup has completed enrollment of an early-stage study testing a first-of-its-kind treatment for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, a disease targeted by many other drugmakers.

The prior three articles in this series — covering the theatrical premiere, the broadcast premiere, and Episode 1's deep physics dive — mapped The Calamity's power systems onto quantum decoherence, ...

Indian scientists at ICAR have decoded the complete, gap-free genome of arhar dal, also called tur dal or pigeonpea, for the ...

Gene editing is like a molecular meet cute. When protein “scissors” dock onto the intended gene, even a tiny slip—no more than the width of a hydrogen atom—can ruin the connection, and the protein may ...

A couple of decades after the discovery of systems that could selectively target DNA, we’re starting to see the first therapies based on gene editing. One challenge these developments have faced is ...

Pioneering gene-editing treatments are already in clinical use, saving lives and easing the pain of devastating genetic diseases. However, the growing number of patients receiving these treatments ...

Longevity research has evolved from ancient myths, like Emperor Qin Shi Huang's quest for an elixir, into a multi-billion dollar scientific pursuit driven by tech billionaires and global powers ...

In late 2021, Amber Salzman interviewed for a job that she had no intention of taking. A relatively new start-up company, called Epicrispr Biotechnologies, was looking for a chief executive, and it ...

What if you could precisely change the genome of a pre-implantation human embryo and then safely use that embryo to try to generate a healthier person? It’s a wild idea, but one that technology over ...

The European Union is changing its rules on gene editing. With the introduction of a two-tier system, it has freed certain types of gene-edited crops from the regulation that they would have ...