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uniQure reported positive topline data from the pivotal Phase I/II study of AMT-130 for the treatment of Huntington’s disease. The…

Circulating tumor cells were first described in 1869 by Thomas Ashworth, an Australian pathologist who observed them in a peripheral…

Nature, Published online: 24 September 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02593-9Tick-borne encephalitis virus can infect the nervous system and cause life-threatening illness. Finding the…

Robertsonian chromosomes (ROB) are a type of structurally variant chromosome that is created when two chromosomes fuse together to form…

The chemokine CXCL12 helps red blood cell progenitors achieve the final steps of maturation.Image credit:©iStock, CreativeDesignArtDonated blood is often in…

If the 264 million students enrolled in higher education around the globe were a country, it would be the fifth…

Scientists from Mass General Brigham and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have used CRISPR screens to identify genetic…

Understanding how rheumatoid arthritis progresses from an asymptomatic stage to causing debilitating pain may help researchers improve patient outcomes.Image credit:©iStock,…

RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 24 September 2025 Genome editors are molecular machines that can rewrite the genetic code in cells, but sometimes…

U.K. scientists have used mass spectrometry to look in detail at how adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) release their genetic cargo when…