New research described details of how a diabetes-related gene functions on a biological pathway that affects the release of insulin. The study authors say that finding drugs that act on that pathway may eventually lead to a new treatment for type…
New Gene Technology Has Therapeutic Implications
For thousands of years humans have been tinkering with plant genetics, even when they didn’t realize that is what they were doing, in an effort to make stronger, healthier crops that endured climates better, and produced more. Zachary Nimchuk, assistant professor…
Potential Link between Brain Development and Breast Cancer Gene
Scientists at the Salk Institute have uncovered details into a surprising—and crucial—link between BRCA1 brain development and a gene whose mutation is tied to breast and ovarian cancer. Aside from better understanding neurological damage associated in a small percentage of people…