Preliminary results from a small trial offer the clearest evidence yet that the brain disease’s progression can be slowed.

Many diseases are caused by a missing or defective copy of a single gene. For decades, scientists have been working on gene therapy treatments that could cure such diseases by delivering a new copy of ...

Is there a connection between bird flu and microRNA, the tiny bits of RNA which have different tasks in regulating genes and producing the body’s building blocks? “MicroRNA is quite stable, and ...

Elena Flowers, PhD, RN, professor of physiological nursing at UC San Francisco’s School of Nursing is not your typical registered nurse. A research scientist with a doctorate from the School of ...