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Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood, or AHC, could see a new treatment thanks to a team of neurologists at Boston Children's Hospital.

New off-the-shelf system reduces the cost and risk of lentiviral (LV) production for cell and gene therapy developers.

As people age or become ill, their immune systems can become exhausted and less capable of fighting off viruses such as the flu or COVID-19.

A valuable molecule sourced from the soapbark tree and used as a key ingredient in vaccines, has been replicated in an alternative plant host for the first time, opening unprecedented opportunities for the vaccine industry.

A new statistical tool developed by researchers at the University of Chicago improves the ability to find genetic variants that cause disease.

Cellular agriculture – the production of meat from cells grown in bioreactors rather than harvested from farm animals – is taking leaps in technology that are making it a more viable option for the food industry.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and ischemic stroke are major public health concerns and leading causes of death and disability worldwide.

Researchers in the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) examined the genetics of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by analyzing mutations in the genomes of individuals and their families.

Many people are wired to seek and respond to rewards. Your brain interprets food as rewarding when you are hungry and water as rewarding when you are...

In findings that have implications for potential new HIV therapies, researchers from Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) used genetic sequencing techniques on the nonhuman primate version of the virus to identify that lymph nodes in the abdomen are the leading source of rebound infection after the first week of stopping antiretroviral treatment.