Genetics
Can we train our taste buds for health? A neuroscientist explains how genes and diet shape taste
Have you ever wondered why only hummingbirds sip nectar from feeders?
Jun 16, 2023
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News tagged with gene coding
Medical research
An epigenetic approach to modulating aging with nutrition and exercise
A new review paper, titled "How can we modulate aging through nutrition and physical exercise? An epigenetic approach," has been published in Aging.
May 10, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Taking a 3D view of the genome may help treat pediatric brain cancers
Researchers led by Sanford Burnham Prebys assistant professor Lukas Chavez, Ph.D., are leveraging the latest technology to take a never-before-seen look at ependymoma, one of the deadliest pediatric brain tumors. By visualizing ...
Apr 27, 2023
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Vaccination
Web-based tool makes vaccine development faster and more accurate
A new software tool developed by Texas Biomedical Research Institute and collaborators can help scientists and vaccine developers quickly edit genetic blueprints of pathogens to make them less harmful.
Mar 15, 2023
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Genetics
Researchers develop enhanced genetic animal model of Down syndrome
National Institutes of Health researchers compared a new genetic animal model of Down syndrome to the standard model and found the updated version to be enhanced. The new mouse model shows milder cognitive traits compared ...
Mar 14, 2023
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Genetics
Gene variants linked to cerebral arachnoid cysts overlap with developmental disorders, autism, and epilepsy
The most common type of brain cyst (arachnoid) has no known cause. New research investigating patients with these cysts has found something unexpected—a potential genetic link.
Genetics
Loss of epigenetic information can drive aging, restoration can reverse it
An international study 13 years in the making demonstrates for the first time that degradation in the way DNA is organized and regulated—known as epigenetics—can drive aging in an organism, independently of changes to ...
Jan 12, 2023
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Biomedical technology
Gene therapies raise difficult legal and ethical questions
New advanced therapies can alleviate or cure chronic diseases. But medical progress raises the question of how rights should be protected and balanced, according to Jessica Almqvist, professor in international law and human ...
Dec 22, 2022
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Genetics
Study explores the effects of changes in the non-coding genome in neurodevelopmental disorders
Less than 2% of the human genome is made up of genes that code for proteins, with the remaining 98% being non-coding and involved in regulating gene expression. Scientists have found many changes in the coding region of the ...
Oct 25, 2022
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Genetics
Epigenetic changes linked to Parkinson's disease differ in men and women
The epigenetic changes linked to Parkinson's disease—a nervous system disorder that afflicts nearly 1 million Americans—are different in men and women, according to a new Rutgers study published in npj Parkinson's Disease.
Oct 17, 2022
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