Higher educational attainment—spending more years in education—may impact people's drinking behaviour and reduce their risk of alcohol dependence, according to a study published in Molecular Psychiatry.
Oct 24, 2019
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For people with a genetic predisposition to alcohol problems, participating in a family based prevention program during adolescence reduced the likelihood that they would develop those problems as an adult, according to a ...
Aug 1, 2019
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A University of North Texas researcher and a 16-year old student are working together to fight cancer with mathematics. Julia Christina Ayalde Camacho, a student in the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science and Xuexia ...
Mar 12, 2019
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For decades researchers have worked to shed light on the causes of neurodegenerative disorders, a group of devastating conditions, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, that involve the progressive loss of neurons and nervous ...
Aug 23, 2018
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Not only does our way of life determine how long we live but so too does our genetic material. Of particular importance here is a genetic program that is controlled by the insulin receptor. A team of researchers from the ...
Apr 21, 2017
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Researchers from the Institute of Neuroscience (INc) of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) have identified the biochemical and molecular alteration that causes resistance to radiotherapy and chemotherapy in the glioblastoma ...
Feb 19, 2016
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For years, medicine has relied on self-reported race/ethnicity as the basis of an array of decisions, from risk for disease to matching organ donors. Now, a study led by researchers at UC San Francisco has found that when ...
Aug 24, 2015
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Your employer may one day help determine if your genes are why your jeans have become too snug.
Apr 28, 2015
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People with a newly identified genetic variant perform better on certain types of memory tests, a discovery that may point the way to new treatments for the memory impairments caused by Alzheimer's disease or other age-associated ...
Nov 12, 2014
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Gene therapies developed by University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine researchers have worked to correct different forms of blindness. While effective, the downside to these approaches to vision rescue is that ...
Jan 16, 2014
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