New research published in JAMA has suggested that specific variations in the CETP gene were associated with slower memory decline and lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
There are rare inherited forms of Alzheimer’s disease but the most common form is caused by a range of factors including: a combination of different genes, life style [...]

Studying genes that regulate early heart development in animals, scientists have solved a puzzle about one gene’s role, finding that it acts in concert with a related gene. Their finding contributes to understanding how the earliest stages of heart development may go awry, resulting in congenital heart defects in humans.

University of Michigan researchers have discovered the rules that dictate the three-dimensional shapes of RNA molecules, rules that are based not on complex chemical interactions but simply on geometry.

Each cell inherits genes from its parent as well as epigenetic information – what amounts to an instruction manual that specifies which genes should be activated or “expressed,” when and to what level. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientist Chris Vakoc, M.D., Ph.D., and his team have now discovered how some of these epigenetic instructions [...]

Cancer Research UK funded scientists have found that a group of rogue genetic messengers, produced by DNA sequences commonly known as ‘junk DNA’, could help diagnose breast and bowel cancer. Their research is published in the journal Genomics.