These discoveries may seem to belong to completely different worlds. One edits DNA, another targets a viral infection, some change cholesterol biology, while others remove a cancer-related protein and act on several metabolic pathways at once.
Studies have found that genes significantly impact athletic ability and influence bodily features. So far, almost 200 polymorphisms linked with variations in sport performances have been identified.
For a long time, scientists believed that much of our DNA was just biologically static, i.e., sequences that didn’t code for anything meaningful. These...
Chronic and especially cardiometabolic diseases are the culmination of multiple risk factors ranging from genetic predispositions and sedentary lifestyles to stress.
E. Charpentier and A. Doudna have made a landmark discovery for the CRISPR/Cas 9 method employed in genome editing, and received 2020's Nobel prize in chemistry.
