Researchers have completed the most in-depth investigation to date of mother-to-infant transmission of common gut bacteria. The study reveals the effective transfer of the gut bacteria Bifidobacterium, a major component of ...
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Rates of colorectal cancer are high despite widespread adoption of screening programs in many high-income European countries. Such programs tend to use a one-size-fits-all approach where most people are screened starting ...
Jun 11, 2023
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Identifying people at high risk of chronic disease means that they can be targeted with prevention measures before they become sick. Polygenic risk scores, where genomic information alone is used to assess the risk of developing ...
Jun 9, 2023
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Scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) are delving deep into the non-coding genome to unravel the complex genetics that underlie blood pressure regulation and hypertension (high blood pressure)—the leading ...
Jun 6, 2023
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Various medications can be prescribed to lower blood sugar levels in individuals at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes, but it's often unclear which patients will benefit most from which drugs.
Jun 3, 2023
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The relationship between cannabis use and psychiatric disorders has been widely debated.
May 31, 2023
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Less than two percent of the human genome codes for proteins, with the rest being noncoding and likely helping with gene regulation. Mutations in the noncoding genome often trigger trait changes that cause disease or disability ...
May 31, 2023
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Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have discovered alternative gene splicing, which occurs during gene expression, can impact a person's risk of alcohol use disorder (AUD). They recently published their ...
May 30, 2023
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Researchers from the Quadram Institute and University of East Anglia have identified what makes some strains of gut bacteria life-threatening in pre-term babies. The findings, now published in the journal Nature Microbiology, ...
May 25, 2023
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Researchers from CUNY SPH and colleagues recently published a powerful new data structure for the analysis of genomic data for open-source statistical computing.
May 25, 2023
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