Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a method for identifying functional mutations and their effect on genes relevant to the development of glioblastoma—a malignant brain tumor with a very poor prognosis. The ...
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The three-dimensional structure of the human genome is essential for providing a rapid and robust inflammatory response, but is surprisingly not vital for reprogramming one cell type into another, according to research published ...
Jun 8, 2020
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New research from the University of Aberdeen and the University of Edinburgh has identified how sections of DNA might contribute to the risk of alcohol abuse in men.
Jun 3, 2020
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Imagine the body's instruction manual, the genome: here words are genes, letters are DNA, and the equivalent of typos can have disastrous consequences.
May 27, 2020
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How hepatitis A virus (HAV) manages to enter liver cells called hepatocytes and initiate infection had remained a mystery for fifty years until now. University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers designed experiments ...
May 27, 2020
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Science has published in its January issue two papers by Associate Prof. Emma Schymanski, Head of the Environmental Cheminformatics research group at the University of Luxembourg. This is a glowing acknowledgement of the ...
May 14, 2020
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A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Socios En Salud, and the Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT report they have identified the single largest genetic contributor to height known ...
May 13, 2020
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As researchers around the world search for safe and effective drug treatments and vaccines, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 appears to be very stable in terms of its genomic, or complete DNA, makeup.
May 12, 2020
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Precision medicine has the potential to tailor treatments to a patient's unique genetic sequence. But achieving this precision—or developing new drugs—requires knowing which genes are involved in disease.
May 4, 2020
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The novel coronavirus pandemic has now resulted in more than 3 million confirmed cases globally and is pushing scientists to share ideas quickly and figure out the best ways to collaborate and contribute to solutions.
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