Lupus is a lifelong, often painful and occasionally lethal autoimmune disease. Few treatments exist today beyond powerful steroids to knock down a patient's immune system—a therapy that has its own ...

A new analysis has revealed detailed information about genetic variation in brain cells that could open new avenues for the targeted treatment of diseases such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease ...

Study: Signatures of transmission in within-host Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex variation: a retrospective genomic epidemiology study. Image Credit: Creativa Images/Shutterstock.com Reducing the ...

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - New uses of genetic testing can help track how animal diets may change due to global warming and are helping crack down on wildlife smuggling, experts said on Saturday.

Genetic Variant Detection in Cancer: Using ISH to Track Tumor Evolution from thescientistllc on Vimeo. Intratumor heterogeneity (ITH) is a major underlying cause of therapy resistance and disease ...

Call them genetic detectives. They are sleuths who don’t carry a badge or gun. They partner with police and crime labs to examine evidence-based DNA. “We’re looking at genetic matches, building up the ...

Researchers interested in improving a given trait in plants can now identify the genes that regulate the trait's expression without doing any experiments. Purdue University's Kranthi Varala and 10 ...

New research published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia provides evidence that genetic variations related to brain fluid movement ...

Many autoimmune diseases, including lupus, have been linked to problems with the toll-like receptors (TLR) on immune cells, in particular the TLR7 and TLR8 receptors, which recognize the nucleic acids ...