Genetics
Human-Neanderthal gene variance is involved in autism
A structure that represents the biggest known genetic difference between humans and Neanderthals also predisposes humans to autism.
Aug 4, 2016
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News tagged with human gene
Genetics
Researchers identify 6,500 genes that are expressed differently in men and women
Men and women differ in obvious and less obvious ways—for example, in the prevalence of certain diseases or reactions to drugs. How are these connected to one's sex? Weizmann Institute of Science researchers recently uncovered ...
May 4, 2017
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Medical research
Scientists develop new gene therapy strategy to delay aging
Cellular senescence, a state of permanent growth arrest, has emerged as a hallmark and fundamental driver of organismal aging. It is regulated by both genetic and epigenetic factors. Despite a few previously reported aging-associated ...
Jan 8, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Severe herpesvirus infection beats adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma
In a recently published editorial in the journal Genes & Cancer, researcher Tatsuro Jo from the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Genbaku Hospital's Department of Hematology discussed aggressive type adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma ...
Feb 27, 2023
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Neuroscience
Schizophrenia a side effect of human development
Schizophrenia may have evolved as an "unwanted side effect" of the development of the complex human brain, a new study has found.
Feb 21, 2018
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Genetics
Chinese team uses CRISPR to genetically modify human embryo
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers at Guangzhou Medical University in China has published a paper in the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics describing their efforts to genetically modify a human embryo using ...
Genetics
Novel treatment based on gene editing safely and effectively removes HIV-like virus from genomes of non-human primates
A single injection of a novel CRISPR gene-editing treatment safely and efficiently removes SIV—a virus related to the AIDS-causing agent HIV—from the genomes of non-human primates, scientists at the Lewis Katz School ...
Aug 16, 2023
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Medical research
Can changing the microbiome reverse lactose intolerance?
After childhood, about two-thirds of the world's human population loses the ability to digest milk. As far as we know, 100 percent of nonhuman mammals also lose this ability after weaning. The ongoing ability to digest lactose, ...
Apr 11, 2019
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Genetics
How long a virgin? It's written in your genes: study
A DNA study of more than 380,000 people has uncovered a rather surprising role for human genes: helping to determine the age at which you first have sex.
Apr 18, 2016
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Genetics
Researchers discover one million new components of the human genome
Researchers at the University of Toronto's Donnelly Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Research have found nearly one million new exons—stretches of DNA that are expressed in mature RNA—in the human genome.
Feb 9, 2024
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