No Gene Acts Alone

No gene acts alone: interacting variants and protein partnerships can worsen, mask or even rescue disease risk, demanding ...
KSAT

Genetic medicine can leave people with rare mutations behind. But there's new hope

This photo provided by Emilys Entourage in April 2025 shows Emily Kramer-Golinkoff, who has cystic fibrosis caused by a rare genetic mutation, during a trip to Maine. (Emilys Entourage via AP) ...
Medical Xpress

Researchers find that genetic ancestry influences how gene mutations impact cancer prognosis

Investigators have unveiled for the first time that changes in certain genes affect an aggressive cancer, T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), differently depending on genetic ancestry. The ...
Healthline

Rare Genetic Traits

Rare genetic traits are features that are uncommon within the general population. They can lead to different observable features or to rare physical abilities. Rare genetic traits are typically ...
News Medical

Rare genetic mutations in healthy women may be key to breast cancer origins

Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC), BC Cancer, Harvard Medical School and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have pinpointed what could be the early genetic origins of ...
The Scientist

How Genetic Variants Interact Shapes Disease Predisposition

Genetic inheritance may sound straightforward: One gene causes one trait or a specific illness. When doctors use genetics, it’s usually to try to identify a disease-causing gene to help guide ...
GEN

Mapping Cancer Drug Resistance Mutations and Mechanisms

A new study headed by teams at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), and Open Targets has indicated how mutations that cause cancer drug resistance fall ...
Live Science

How much of your disease risk is genetic? It's complicated.

Environmental factors such as lifestyle and the medications you take influence the effects your genes have on your body — and can clarify how diseases develop. When you purchase through links on our ...
Medical Xpress

Genetic ancestry and parental smoking linked to new genetic changes in children

Ancestry and lifestyle choices of parents may affect the rate and type of new genetic changes that arise in their children, new research has found. The study sheds light on factors that influence the ...
Los Angeles Times

Bird flu mutation associated with increased disease severity found in two cats

An H5N1 bird flu mutation associated with increased infectiousness and disease severity has been found in two cats. Since the beginning of this year, more than 50 cats have been infected with H5N1 ...
BioPharma Dive

Aurora sets out to capitalize on FDA’s new framework for bespoke drug therapies

Co-founded by Jennifer Doudna and Fyodor Urnov, the company intends to simultaneously develop many gene editing treatments ...