A new genetic study focussing on the degree of violence in criminals and using both candidate gene and GWAS approaches finds statistically significant associations of extreme violent behaviour with low activity alleles of ...

Inactivation of the CCR5 gene by CRISPR editing in human embryos, as recently attempted in China, was touted as a positive change for the babies involved since it was expected to ...

Life expectancy curves for several nations provide an astonishingly precise image of the major events that occurred during the last century, highlight similarities between France and Great Britain, and reflect the tremendous ...

The first therapy based on chimeric antigen receptors has been approved by the FDA. It gives excellent results in recurrent paediatric ALL; its cost is very high but fairly consistent with the clinical benefit (long term ...

Very large-scale GWAS analyses confirm the genetic complexity of schizophrenia and provide some new leads to understand the etiology of the condition.

A novel gene editing procedure based on a nuclease from the Argonaute protein family was described in mid-2016 and appeared to provide significant advantages over the now widely used CRISPR-Cas9 system. Attempts by numerous ...