The human immune system is finely tuned to detect and destroy viral threats. But this same defense system can misfire. When ...

Aston University bioscientist Dr John Reynolds has won a £125,000 Springboard grant from the Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) for research into neurodegeneration caused by a rare genetic disease.

Some of your most important life partners are the mitochondria that power all your cells. You and these little cellular ...

Researchers have identified a specific class of brain neurons that dies during multiple sclerosis because inflammation ...

Salk scientists have created a platform to study mitochondrial DNA mutations that lead or contribute to human disease, and ...

CRISPR Cas9 gene therapy explained with DNA scissors, hereditary diseases treatment, and designer babies ethical dilemmas ...

Scientists have recently discovered a natural age counter in human DNA. This finding has reversed decades of study as we may ...

What causes gray matter loss in Multiple Sclerosis? New research identifies DNA damage in CUX2 neurons as a primary driver of MS progression.

Now, following up on that success, a large Chinese collaboration has followed up with a description of an improved gene ...