Two wrongs make a right: How two damaging disease variants can restore health

Scientists at Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI) have overturned a long-held belief in genetics: that inheriting two ...

How a rare genetic variant protects some people from developing blood cancers

Blood cancer is an umbrella term for a variety of diseases that affect the blood, bone marrow and lymphatic system. Like most ...

Variant Bio Launches Inference, the World's First Agentic AI Genomic Drug Discovery Platform

Variant Bio, a genomics-driven AI drug discovery company, today announced the launch of Inference, the world's first agentic genomic drug dis ...
Forbes

New COVID-19 ‘Stratus’ Variant XFG Now In 38 Countries, WHO Monitoring

The XFG variant of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 as continued to spread as the U.S. heads into peak Summer travel season. (Photo by I RYU/VCG via Getty Images) There’s another ...
News Medical

Human-specific gene variant may hold key to evolution of language

The origins of human language remain mysterious. Are we the only animals truly capable of complex speech? Are Homo sapiens the only hominids who could give detailed directions to a far-off freshwater ...
Frontiers

Novel Gene and Variant Discovery in Human Genetic Disorders: From Coding and Non-Coding RNA variants

Rapid advances in sequencing technologies have transformed our ability to diagnose human genetic disorders, yet many patients still lack a molecular ...