Evidence has been building in recent years that our diet, our habits or traumatic experiences can have consequences for the health of our children—and even our grandchildren. The explanation that has gained most currency ...
Oct 29, 2018
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There are diseases and health conditions that are essentially invisible to us until it is too late.
Oct 17, 2018
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A new method for sequencing the chemical groups attached to the surface of DNA is paving the way for better detection of cancer and other diseases in the blood, according to research from the Perelman School of Medicine at ...
Oct 8, 2018
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An error in one of the most widely used methods in epigenetics, DIP-seq, can cause misleading results, researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have shown. This may have major significance in the research field, where ...
Jun 26, 2018
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Every day, 91 Americans die from an opioid overdose. Rates of abuse of these drugs have shot up over the past 15 years and continue to climb.
Apr 24, 2018
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In a pioneering study, scientists at A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have developed new machine learning computer models, a type of artificial intelligence (AI), to accurately pinpoint cancer mutations. They ...
Apr 19, 2018
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Researchers have revealed 40 genes involved in the development of myeloma, increasing our understanding of the complex genetics behind the incurable blood cancer.
Apr 9, 2018
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In a review article published April 5 in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientist Andrew Feinberg, M.D., calls for more integration between two fields of DNA-based research: genetics and epigenetics.
Apr 5, 2018
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Most of the human genome—98 percent—is made up of DNA but doesn't actually encode genes, the recipes cells use to build proteins. The vast majority of genetic mutations associated with cancer occur in these non-coding ...
Apr 2, 2018
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Scientists have unveiled incredible images of how the DNA code is read and interpreted—revealing new detail about one of the fundamental processes of life.
Jan 17, 2018
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