Genetics

Post-COVID syndrome visible in DNA, shows study

A reprogramming of which genes are active, and which are not, is visible in post-COVID sufferers. This is shown in a study from Linköping University, Sweden, on a small group of individuals. The researchers can see that ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Research team creates statistical model to predict COVID-19 resistance

Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and The Johns Hopkins University have created and preliminarily tested what they believe may be one of the first models for predicting who has the highest probability of being resistant ...

Medical research

A way of life that keeps cells young in one region of Costa Rica

In Nicoya, Costa Rica, where average incomes are among the nation's lowest, the average life span is 85—among the world's highest. By comparison, a person in the United States can reasonably expect to live to just 77, according ...

Oncology & Cancer

Does eating processed meats cause colorectal cancer?

They're integral to summer, as ubiquitous as a zinced-up nose or a backyard cricket game. From December onward, walk into any gathering and processed meats are being served. It's the bacon sizzling on the barbecue, the cured ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Modeling the COVID-19 roller coaster

First it was alpha. Then delta. Now omicron and its alphabet soup of subvariants. In the three years since the coronavirus pandemic started, every few months or so a new strain seems to go around, only to be outdone by the ...

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