DNA can already tell us the sex and ancestry of unknown individuals, but now an international team of researchers is beginning to connect genetics with facial features, degrees of femininity and racial admixture.
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Most autoimmune diseases are easy to diagnose but hard to treat. A paper published today in Science proposes using your unique immune cell fingerprint to rapidly identify which treatments will work for your autoimmune disease.
Apr 7, 2022
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A research team led by Nancy Speck, PhD, professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has discovered a molecular marker for the immediate precursors of ...
Dec 9, 2011
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People differ significantly in their memory performance. Researchers at the University of Basel have now discovered that certain brain signals are related to these differences.
Sep 25, 2023
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While our circadian body clock dictates our preferred rhythm of sleep or wakefulness, a relatively new concept—the epigenetic clock—could inform us about how swiftly we age, and how prone we are to diseases of old age.
Oct 29, 2020
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A new study presented at ACR Convergence, the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting, shows that after three months of treatment with oral methotrexate, adults with primary knee osteoarthritis (OA) with inflammation ...
Nov 6, 2020
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For nearly 150 years, the concept of intelligence and its study have offered scientific ways of classifying people in terms of their "ability". The drive to identify and quantify exceptional mental capacity may have a chequered ...
Apr 21, 2016
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While most cell types experience a functional decline after years of proliferation and replication, T cells can proliferate seemingly indefinitely and without detriment.
Jun 12, 2024
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Scientists at deCODE genetics in Iceland, a subsidiary of Amgen, today publish the first genetic map of the human genome developed using whole-genome sequence data.
Jan 24, 2019
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A distinct genetic marker, carried by descendants of Robert the Bruce's close relatives, has been identified by researchers at the University of Strathclyde.
Feb 2, 2022
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