After decades of dead ends, researchers have discovered a combination of genes that can generate new cells in the inner ...

In a recent study, scientists devised a way of reversing the buildup of compounds that lead to some age-related diseases.

When an individual is born with genetic defects, there are a few ways to deal with the impact of the faulty genes. The most extreme solution is direct DNA editing to repair the mutation, while the ...

Congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect, affecting approximately 1 in 100 babies born each year. One of the many causes for this disorder is having only one functional copy of the ...

Why can zebrafish regenerate damaged gut nerves while humans largely cannot? Michigan State University researchers have developed a new research tool that allows them to remove gut neurons in ...

Enhancers are pieces of DNA that act like switches, regulating when genes are turned on and off and how strongly they are ...

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BRISTOL — The large 1895 street clock that stands outside of the American Clock & Watch Museum has gone out for restoration. Patti Philippon, executive director of the museum at 100 Maple St., said ...

A drug, that has previously been shown to be safe and tolerated by humans, reduces multiple disease-linked features of Alzheimer's in a mouse model of the disease. Neuroscientists from King's College ...

Neuroscientists from King's College London have developed an approach that targets a key protein to tackle several features of Alzheimer's disease in one go. They found that KCL-286, a drug that has ...

Neuroscientists from King’s College London have developed an approach that targets a key protein to tackle several features of Alzheimer’s disease in one go. They found that KCL-286, a drug that has ...