Hypertension is a cardiovascular disease that seriously threatens global public health. Early and effective control of blood pressure can prevent the occurrence of target organ damage and ...

A team of scientists from Australia has recently identified a frameshift deletion mutation in ORF7a of the delta variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The mutation ...

Parkinson's disease causes both movement and cognitive deficits, and for a long time both were thought to be caused by the accumulation of a protein called alpha-synuclein in the brain. But a new ...

Parkinson's disease researchers say they have discovered a genetic mutation in a small protein that could produce new treatments for the debilitating brain disorder. Chinnapong - stock.adobe.com ...

In a quest to develop new antiviral drugs for COVID-19 and other diseases, a collaboration led by scientists at The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute has identified a potential new drug against the virus ...

Faulty versions of the LMNA gene can cause a wide range of health problems, including heart muscle disease (dilated ...

One genetic mutation may transform the way we treat rheumatoid arthritis, a disease that will affect an estimated one percent of the world. York University researchers have identified a mutation in ...

Scientists have discovered a rare mutation that may halve the risk of Parkinson's disease. The study from the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, in California, published in the journal Molecular ...