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Crystalline forms of cholesterol (blue) in a liver cell (purple), imaged using a scanning electron microscope.Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo LibraryA CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing therapy has halved people’s…

GWAS summary statisticsGWAS summary statistics for 305 continuous traits were downloaded from the Neale Lab (http://www.nealelab.is/uk-biobank/; v3). These regressions were run on inverse rank normal-transformed phenotypes…

Late last year, dozens of researchers spanning thousands of miles banded together in a race to save one baby boy’s life. The result was a world…

Nature, Published online: 31 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03566-8In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefitted one child. Now reseachers plan to launch a clinical trial of…

When Demetri Maxim was seven years old, his mother’s kidneys stopped working. She was put on dialysis, which meant that she had to go to the…

STANFORD, CA—Shedding new light on the rare trait’s origins, researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine announced Friday that they had successfully identified the gene responsible…

The MC4R gene promotes gain of fat tissue (pictured, artificially coloured fat cells) but suppresses cholesterol levels.Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/SPLA gene that causes obesity is paradoxically linked…

MALIBU, Calif. — MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — Kiss rock star Gene Simmons is recovering after he fainted while driving along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu…

A brain scan of a person with Huntington’s disease, which causes a loss of brain volume as neurons are killed off by the accumulation of a…

This article is part of Nature Outlook: Skin, an editorially independent supplement produced with financial support from LEO Pharma. About this content.KaDee Troop is the mother…