Most children with rare genetic diseases spend years undergoing medical tests and waiting for a diagnosis—a long, exhausting process that takes its toll on children and their families. Almost half of these children never ...
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Humans rely dominantly on their eyesight. Losing vision means inability to read, recognize faces or find objects. Macular degeneration is one of the major causes of visual impairment around the globe; close to 200 million ...
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The international study "Resistance to targeted therapies as a multifactorial, gradual adaptation to inhibitor specific selective pressures," recently published in the scientific journal Nature Communications, has taken a ...
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A group of scientists led by Philipp Khaitovich, a professor at Skoltech, conducted a large-scale study of gene expression in 33 different brain regions of humans, chimpanzees, macaques and bonobos using the single-cell-resolution ...
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Cancer is often the result of DNA mutations or problems with how cells divide, which can lead to cells "forgetting" what type of cell they are or how to function properly. Now, Professor Martin Hetzer and a team of scientists ...
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A team of UMass Medical School researchers has identified a promising new therapeutic target in hepatoblastoma, a rare, primarily pediatric liver cancer for which successful treatment strategies have been elusive.
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The nutritional supplement has dramatically improved the lives of other children with the rare metabolic disorder.
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In the largest study of the genetics of childhood obesity, researchers have looked at why some children gain weight very easily.
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Some people are more sensitive than others—and around half of these differences can be attributed to our genes, new research has found.
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A mutation unique to certain cancer tumors is a potential homing beacon for safely deploying CRISPR gene editing enzymes to disarm DNA that makes cancer cells resistant to treatment, while ignoring the gene in normal cells ...
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