Women with the 'Angelina Jolie' gene can be screened for ovarian cancer for the first time on NHS

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is offering surveillance tests to women with the BRCA1 or ...

How gene mutations drive dementia in Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease causes both movement and cognitive deficits, and for a long time both were thought to be caused by the ...
IEEE

An Improved Optimization for Constrained Sparse Planar Arrays Based on Adaptive Genetic Algorithm

Abstract: This paper proposes a constrained sparse planar array optimization method based on the Adaptive Genetic Algorithm (AGA). By optimizing the positions of array elements, the method effectively ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Experimental Gene Therapy Successfully Treats Huntington’s Disease for the First Time

An experimental gene therapy has slowed the progression of Huntington’s disease by 75 percent, according to results reported ...

Want to Live Longer? First Find Out How Old You Really Are

You get older every day. But how old are your cells and organs, really?
Nature

Huntington’s disease treated for first time using gene therapy

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