In what may turn out to be a long-missing piece in the puzzle of breast cancer, Harvard Medical School researchers have identified the molecular sparkplug that ignites cases of the disease currently unexplained by the classical ...
May 17, 2023
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The traces of genetic material that humans constantly shed wherever they go could soon be used to track individual people, or even whole ethnic groups, scientists said on Monday, warning of a looming "ethical quagmire".
May 15, 2023
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Researchers from Sanford Burnham Prebys and the Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed a computational approach to predict whether a person with type 2 diabetes will develop kidney disease, a frequent and dangerous ...
May 15, 2023
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Much of the human genome is made of regulatory regions that control which genes are expressed at a given time within a cell. Those regulatory elements can be located near a target gene or up to 2 million base pairs away from ...
May 8, 2023
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A leading testing expert says DNA genotype testing is revealing how most of us have a little Neanderthal in our blood, and how our unique DNA sequence can reveal our origins and track our ancestors' migration over 50,000 ...
Apr 27, 2023
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SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, seems to have become a permanent presence in our lives. Research from Whitehead Institute Founding Member Rudolf Jaenisch's lab reveals that this may be true on multiple levels. ...
Mar 1, 2023
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In a first-of-its-kind study, Arizona State University Professor Michael Lynch joins a multi-institute group of researchers to investigate transcription error rates in human cells and the underlying mechanisms affecting them.
Feb 27, 2023
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"Use it or lose it" goes the adage, applied liberally to everything from our muscles to our minds, especially as we age.
Feb 15, 2023
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Scientists tend to view substance addiction as primarily a disease of the brain. When we enjoy sex, food, music, or hobbies, regions of our brain within the reward pathway are flooded with pleasure-inducing dopamine. Drugs ...
Feb 14, 2023
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A mutant or damaged gene may be a cause of a severe, mysterious form of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have found. Mice and human liver cells lacking the SRSF1 gene show ...
Feb 9, 2023
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