Genetics can predict and help improve how patients fare after bariatric surgery, concludes research
Clinicians treating severe obesity have a new genetic tool for predicting—and ultimately improving—bariatric surgery outcomes.
Sep 28, 2023
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Clinicians treating severe obesity have a new genetic tool for predicting—and ultimately improving—bariatric surgery outcomes.
Sep 28, 2023
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Animals possess specialized networks of neurons in the brain that receive signals about the outside world from the retina and respond by initiating appropriate behavior. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological ...
Sep 27, 2023
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The blood-brain barrier, the body's way of shielding sensitive brain tissue from viruses, toxins and other harmful substances in the blood, can pose a problem for physicians caring for patients with suspected brain diseases ...
Sep 27, 2023
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A cellular signal essential to the development of the skeleton increases during aging to weaken bones, finds a new study in mice.
Sep 27, 2023
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Lyme disease is the leading vector-borne disease—meaning diseases that are transmitted to humans from another organism like a tick or mosquito—in North America and Europe.
Sep 22, 2023
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Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, often with onset during childhood, that requires lifelong insulin therapy due to the loss of pancreatic beta-cells.
Sep 21, 2023
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Antimicrobial resistance—the ability of microorganisms to resist drugs that have been developed to control them—is a severe problem in African countries. The continent has the highest global burden of antimicrobial-resistant ...
Sep 18, 2023
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Genetically speaking, we are individuals different from each other because of slight variations in our DNA sequences—so-called genetic variants—some of which have dramatic effects we can see and comprehend, from the color ...
Sep 15, 2023
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Researchers from the University of Tokyo reveal how the presynaptic Ube3a E3 ligase, a causal factor in Angelman syndrome, eliminates neural chatter. The study helps find a better drug target for the Angelman syndrome treatment.
Sep 14, 2023
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Van Andel Institute scientists and collaborators have identified a key part of a mechanism that annotates genetic information before it is passed from fathers to their offspring.
Sep 6, 2023
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