An international research team identified hundreds of genes essential for the development of brain cells, including one gene ...

Researchers have found that coronaviruses like SARS-CoV-2 contain genes that appear important for viral survival even though they don't produce a working protein. Their work investigating how these ...

Lethal and rescuer genes are defined as genes that when inactivated result in cell death or enhanced cell growth, respectively. The ability to identify these genes in large-scale automated screening ...

Each animal only has a full set of essential genes when it carries both versions. A hypothesis from the 1980s predicted that such errors arise from a rare faulty exchange between chromosomes. The ...

The study from the Stowers Institute and the University of Georgia uncovers more than 300 potential targets for drug development for a lethal fungus. Although humans and fungi bear little resemblance, ...

Scientists from the Cancer Dependency Map (DepMap) at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Columbia University have ...