Scientists at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have illuminated how treatments for multiple myeloma and other aggressive blood cancers can lead to future malignancies, ...
Jan 26, 2023
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Findings from a new study published in Cell Reports, involving a collaborative effort between researchers at the Luikart Laboratory at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and the Weston Laboratory at the University of Vermont, ...
Nov 1, 2022
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An international team of researchers has identified multiple X chromosomes that likely contribute to infertility in men. In their paper published in The American Journal of Human Genetics, the researchers describe how they ...
After three decades of hopes tempered by setbacks, gene therapy—the process of treating a disease by modifying a person's DNA—is no longer the future of medicine, but is part of the present-day clinical treatment toolkit. ...
Jan 11, 2018
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A new Northwestern University study challenges prevailing understandings of genes as immutable features of biology that are fixed at conception.
Apr 4, 2019
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Our mouths may be home to a newly discovered set of multi-tasking taste cells that—unlike most known taste cells, which detect individual tastes—are capable of detecting sour, sweet, bitter and umami stimuli. A research ...
Aug 13, 2020
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Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) led a large, international research team that has identified gene mutations associated with a rare congenital condition involving the absence of a nose and often accompanied ...
Jan 10, 2017
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A 'gene signature' that could be used to predict the onset of diseases, such as Alzheimer's, years in advance has been developed in research published in the open access journal Genome Biology.
Sep 6, 2015
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Scientists say genes that some people have inherited from their Neanderthal ancestors may increase their likelihood of suffering severe forms of COVID-19.
Sep 30, 2020
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Mutations occur in various tissues and organs of an individual. Somatic mutations occur in cells that will not give rise to offspring and are therefore not passed on to subsequent generations. Caused by a large number of ...
Jul 5, 2022
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