In a finding that could help lead to new therapies for immune diseases like multiple sclerosis and IBD, scientists report in the Journal of Experimental Medicine identifying a gene and family of proteins critical to the formation ...
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New insights into the journey from health to disease in the human liver have been made by scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, the University of Cambridge and their collaborators. ...
Oct 23, 2019
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A new study examining the role that star-shaped brain cells called astrocytes play in Huntington's disease has identified a potential strategy that may halt the disease and repair some of the damage it causes.
Oct 16, 2019
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Mutations in the gene that encodes a protein called adenine nucleotide translocator (ANT) cause a variety of conditions, such as heart disease and weakness of the eye muscles, but the underlying mechanism of how these mutations ...
Oct 16, 2019
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A genetic link has now been found for some instances of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS. The new UW Medicine research study is the first to make an explainable link tracking the mechanism between a genetic anomaly and ...
Oct 11, 2019
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Everyone is a mutant but some are prone to diverge more than others, report scientists at University of Utah Health.
Sep 24, 2019
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People with severe flu sometimes develop life-threatening heart problems, even when their hearts have been previously healthy, but the reason for that has been poorly understood.
Sep 10, 2019
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DNA changes throughout a person's life can significantly increase their susceptibility to heart conditions and other age-related diseases, research suggests.
Sep 2, 2019
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Families living with four extremely rare neurodegenerative diseases have finally learned the cause of their illnesses, thanks to a researcher's hunch and decades of improvements in DNA sequencing technology.
Jul 22, 2019
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Help for patients with sickle cell disease may soon come from gene editing to fix the mutation that causes the disease and boost the patient's own protective fetal hemoglobin.
Jun 3, 2019
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