RESEARCHERS at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a method to purify gene therapies 10 times more quickly than conventional processes, paving the way to lower prices for the ...

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), a leading cause of heart failure, is twice as common in Black individuals as in white ...

Research collaboration: RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics (CNCG) is a research collaboration whose article contributions are accrued to its participating partner institutions. RIKEN-MIT ...

Tumors can carry mutations in hundreds of different genes, and each of those genes may be mutated in different ways - some mutations simply replace one DNA nucleotide with another, while others insert ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...

MIT scientists have uncovered a mechanism for how a common genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s contributes to the disease. It centers on lipid metabolism, and early investigations suggest it could ...

Eighty-four teams of students from 21 countries are gathering at MIT to compete in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition. The teams have been working since the summer to ...

MIT scientists have found a way to make gene editing far safer and more accurate — a breakthrough that could reshape how we treat hundreds of genetic diseases. By fine-tuning the tiny molecular “tools ...

Scientists from Duke, MIT, and Stanford have independently devised a molecular trick that could help make genetic therapies safer and more effective. The technology, which was disclosed in three ...

From personalized vaccines to next-generation screening technologies, the ways the world treats and detects cancer could shift dramatically in the coming years. But there are many challenges ahead, as ...