Transplantology experiences enormous gap between the need for organs and the availability of organs. Only in the US, waiting list…
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International collaboration collected and investigated genomes of 6,400 individuals from Uganda. They correlated SNPs (single nucleotide polymophirms) and nearly two…
The discovery was disclosed by Omar Akbari (UC San Diego) at Twitter: We just discovered a novel gene that is…
Gaucher disease is caused by mutations in GBA gene, which deactivate beta-glucocerebrosidase enzyme. Patients suffer from accumulation of molecules normally…
Scientists in a worldwide consortium genetically modified four varieties of rice (Oryza sativa): japonica Kitaake, indica IR24, indica IR64, indica…
CRISPR toolbox is quite diverse in nature. Bacteria use two classes of CRISPR, which are then divided to six types…
Pyruvate kinase deficiency (PKD) is a rare genetic disorder, present in 5 / 100,000 people, caused by mutations in PKLR…
Tay-Sachs disease is caused by mutations in HEXA gene. Patients experience rapid neurodegeneration, including loss of neurons and decrease in…
Clinical trial (NCT04133649) just began recruitment stage. The procedure will consist of a single intravenous injection, followed by six safety…
CRISPRCasdb is built upon the results of two tools: CRISPRFinder and CasFinder. The database contains derived from 16 990 complete…