The majority of rare diseases have a genetic cause. The underlying genetic alteration can be found more and more easily, for example, by means of exome sequencing (ES), leading to a molecular genetic diagnosis. ES is an examination ...
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Botanicals like turmeric, green tea and black cohosh may seem benign, but their overuse is being increasingly linked to liver injury.
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When it comes to determining whether a vegetarian diet is right for you, genetics are an important part of the equation, according to a new study from the University of Georgia.
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Duke-NUS Quantitative Biology and Medicine Ph.D. candidate Yuan Han has developed a new method to improve the accuracy of AI when it is used to diagnose a collapsed lung, or pneumothorax, by limiting the area of a chest X-ray ...
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Scientists at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Medical Science and Imperial College London have discovered that 'switching off' a protein called IL-11 can significantly increase the healthy lifespan of mice by almost ...
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A team of psychologists and mental health specialists affiliated with several institutions in Denmark, working with a colleague from the U.K., has found that reducing screen time for children to just three hours per week ...
Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders worldwide, estimated to affect about one in eight people worldwide. Once individuals experiencing symptoms of depression approach a psychiatrist or psychotherapist, ...
A study of more than 200,000 people by researchers at the University of Oxford found at least a 17% reduction in dementia diagnoses in the six years after the new recombinant shingles vaccination, equating to 164 or more ...
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Simon Boas, who wrote a candid account of living with cancer, passed away on July 15 at the age of 47. In a recent BBC interview, the former aid worker told the reporter: "My pain is under control and I'm terribly happy—it ...
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Addressing problems with diagnosing and treating breast cancer, scientists at EPFL have developed EMBER, a tool that integrates breast cancer transcriptomic data from multiple databases. EMBER can improve precision oncology ...
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