You have your mother's eyes and your father's smile, but genetics is much more than just what's on the surface. In a study that spans more than a decade, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have looked at generations ...
Mar 22, 2024
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While any two human genomes are about 99.9% identical, genetic variation in the remaining 0.1% plays an important role in shaping human diversity, including a person's risk for developing certain diseases.
Oct 26, 2023
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Twenty years ago, when researchers from the Human Genome Project announced that they had completed the first-ever sequence of an entire set of human DNA, the discovery was heralded as comparable to "splitting the atom or ...
Aug 27, 2023
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In a paper published in NAR Cancer, researchers from the Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Nationwide Children's and their collaborators report a comprehensive 3D chromatin structural analysis and characterization of ...
Jun 14, 2023
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A long molecule of RNA found in abundance in the healthy smooth muscle cells that give our blood vessels strength and flexibility is also essential to the continuous contraction that moves food through our gastrointestinal ...
May 9, 2023
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Mental illness is a growing public health problem. In 2019, an estimated 1 in 8 people around the world were affected by mental disorders like depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. While scientists have long known ...
Sep 13, 2022
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The Human Genome Project was an ambitious initiative to sequence every piece of human DNA. The project drew together collaborators from research institutions around the world, including MIT's Whitehead Institute for Biomedical ...
Jun 10, 2022
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Northeastern experts are taking the mystery out of what we eat.
May 26, 2022
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An international research effort has unveiled the most extensive reference map yet of individual cells within the human body, knowledge that could revolutionize the study of health and disease.
May 12, 2022
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Scientists say they have finally assembled the full genetic blueprint for human life, adding the missing pieces to a puzzle nearly completed two decades ago.
Apr 3, 2022
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