Genetics
Psoriasis not caused by spontaneous mutations in skin cells, finds study
Psoriasis—a chronic skin condition—is not caused or spread by spontaneous genetic mutations in the skin, new research suggests.
Oct 26, 2023
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Genetics
A natural history of neurons: Diverse mutations reveal lineage of brain cells
Walt Whitman's famous line, "I am large, I contain multitudes," has gained a new level of biological relevance.
Oct 1, 2015
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Genetics
Molecular clocks control mutation rate in human cells
Every cell in the human body contains a copy of the human genome. Through the course of a lifetime all cells are thought to acquire mutations in their genomes. Some of the mutational processes generating these mutations do ...
Nov 9, 2015
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Medical research
New lung cell type discovered
A recent study has identified a new lung cell type that is implicated in the body's innate immune defense against the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae—one of the leading causes of pneumonia worldwide.
Sep 18, 2017
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Neuroscience
Abnormalities in neurodevelopment could lay the foundations for Alzheimer's disease
What if Alzheimer's disease left its mark on the embryo? Khadijeh Shabani and her colleagues from the Brain Development team led by Bassem Hassan (Inserm) at Paris Brain Institute show that the amyloid precursor protein (APP) ...
Jun 16, 2023
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Research sheds light on new strategy to treat infertility
New research from Oregon Health & Science University describes the science behind a promising technique to treat infertility by turning a skin cell into an egg that is capable of producing viable embryos.
Mar 8, 2024
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Genetics
Researchers discover genetic risk factor for skin, prostate and brain cancers
Scientists at deCODE Genetics and academic collaborators from Iceland, The Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, the USA, the UK and Romania today report the discovery of a variant in the sequence of the human genome ...
Sep 25, 2011
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers announce the first comprehensive genome studies of the evolution of 21 breast cancers
In two back-to-back reports published online on 17 May in Cell, researchers have sequenced the genomes of 21 breast cancers and analysed the mutations that emerged during the tumours' development. The individual results are ...
May 17, 2012
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Medical research
Cellular secrets of ageing unlocked by researchers
New research has uncovered how genetic changes that accumulate slowly in blood stem cells throughout life are likely to be responsible for the dramatic change in blood production after the age of 70.
Jun 1, 2022
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Genetics
Another byproduct of aging: Hypermutations in the brain
Genetic mutations in early development have been implicated in several psychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, symptoms of which typically manifest during childhood and early adulthood. However, mutations ...
Jul 29, 2022
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