Spina bifida is the most common birth defect of the central nervous system and the second most common of all structural birth defects. To learn more about it, Baylor College of Medicine's From the Labs sat with Dr. Richard ...
Aug 4, 2022
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Most of the roughly 40 trillion cells of your body have nearly identical copies of your genome—the DNA inherited from your parents, containing instructions for everything from converting food to energy to fighting off infections. ...
May 27, 2022
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We've all become familiar with virus mutations over the course of the pandemic, and can all probably list off the COVID variants including alpha, delta and omicron. But now we're hearing more and more about subvariants, as ...
May 25, 2022
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A team of researchers led by UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has found that metformin—a drug commonly used to treat Type 2 diabetes—can successfully reduce ...
Mar 29, 2021
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Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) afflicts as many as two million people around the world, affecting multiple organs, including lungs, brain, skin and kidneys. In about 80 percent of cases, it causes cysts and benign tumors ...
Feb 4, 2021
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Numerous questions emerge when considering the nature and relevance of viruses: What exactly are they? Are they even alive? How and when did viruses first evolve, and are viruses unavoidable consequences of biological replicators? ...
Apr 14, 2020
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Researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham have discovered parts of the DNA that put some people at higher risk of an incurable lung disease called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The findings are published ...
Feb 28, 2020
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People with schizophrenia can experience psychosis, a condition in which they perceive the world very differently to those around them. They may see or hear things that others cannot or hold beliefs that others find bizarre. ...
Oct 11, 2019
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A recent study published in Southern Medical Journal, led by researchers from the University of South Florida identifies a genetic variation known to affect sickle cell disease symptomology. This finding may explain why some ...
May 9, 2019
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Genes play a role in determining the beauty of a person's face, but that role varies with the person's sex, according to a new study by Qiongshi Lu and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, published 4th April ...
Apr 4, 2019
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