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DECEMBER 1, 2024

While a domino effect of immunological reactions can be traced back to their genetic roots, a number of contributing factors are also involved, making it difficult to map the precise chain of […]

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JUNE 19, 2023

The research – first brought to wider attention by The Guardian – has prompted excitement about the potential for new breakthroughs in health, genetics, and treating disease. In a major scientific first, synthetic human embryo models have been grown in the lab, without any need for the usual natural ingredients of eggs and sperm.

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JUNE 8, 2023

As DNA holds the genetic code controlling how our bodies grow and are maintained, that’s a serious problem that […] The artificial sweetener sucralose (marketed as Splenda) is widely used and found in products like diet soda and chewing gum.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The scientists sent the blood 950 miles east to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, to a tiny lab (recently converted from a storeroom) where a 28-year-old postdoc named James Gusella and his 23-year-old research technician, Rudolph Tanzi, got to work.

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MAY 15, 2023

The traces of genetic material that humans constantly shed wherever they go could soon be used to track individual people, or even whole ethnic groups, scientists said on Monday, warning of a looming "ethical quagmire".

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JUNE 25, 2024

A woman in Colombia with rare genetic resistance to Alzheimer’s disease may have more company than scientists thought.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Zhang, one of the leading scientists in the groundbreaking field of genetic editing, had reached out two days prior to discuss a new company he was working on. Akin Akinc was scouring his email spam box last summer, looking for a missing message, when he stumbled across an unexpected email from a quite recognizable name: Feng Zhang.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Genetic testing provides patients with a diagnosis for their illness, helps patients and family members to understand risks of developing new diseases, and can be used to support clinical trial advancement. What are the benefits and limitations to using genetic testing? It is important to consider the type of testing performed (e.g.,

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JULY 14, 2021

The next COVID pandemic could be prevented by using a gene drive to preemptively edit the genome of bats to prevent them from becoming hosts for coronaviruses, according to a proposal by scientists from Israel’s Interdisciplinary Center Herzelia and the National Institutes of Health.

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APRIL 15, 2021

Team of Japanese and European scientists identify a novel genetic mitochondrial disorder by analyzing DNA samples from three distinct families Credit: Fujita Health University DNA ligase proteins, which facilitate the formation of bonds between separate strands of DNA, play critical roles in the replication and maintenance of DNA.

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MARCH 30, 2021

Credit: Mark Milburn/Atlantic Scuba Red algae that grow in Cornwall’s Fal Estuary are genetically unique, new research shows. University of Exeter scientists studied the population genetics of Phymatolithon calcareum, a coralline red algal species that forms maerl beds in shallow coastal seas from Portugal to Norway.

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JUNE 25, 2023

Scientists from the US, UK, and Uruguay analyzed data from 378,932 people aged 40 to 69 to see how those who are genetically ‘programmed’ to nap regularly fared cognitively […]

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JULY 19, 2022

One reason is a person’s genetic proclivity to abuse substances. […]. CHAPEL HILL, NC – Have you ever wondered why one person can smoke cigarettes for a year and easily quit, while another person will become addicted for life? Why can’t some people help themselves from abusing alcohol and others can take it or leave it?

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

Forward genetics pinpoints gene linked to ASD involving severe speech impairment and opens door to search for more mutations, future treatments Credit: Photo taken by Brian Coats for UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Dec.

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MAY 8, 2023

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have identified new genetic risk factors for two types of non-Alzheimer's dementia. These findings were published in Cell Genomics and detail how researchers identified large-scale DNA changes, known as structural variants, by analyzing thousands of DNA samples.

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JULY 8, 2022

Scientists have identified more than 1,500 genetic differences between migratory and non-migratory hoverflies. Credit: Will Hawkes Scientists have identified more than 1,500 genetic differences between migratory and non-migratory hoverflies.

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APRIL 19, 2023

But after Cheung herself developed a genetic condition so rare it doesn’t have an official name, causing her to start losing her vision, HHMI decided to stop funding her.

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MARCH 29, 2021

Tissue collection at NOAA Fisheries lab helps reveal genetic distinction Credit: Mansur/WCR Bangladesh New genetic analysis and years of painstaking research has revealed that one of the world’s most endangered marine mammals is actually two species rather than one, as scientists had long assumed.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

LA JOLLA, CA—New research shows how genetic variations linked to severe cases of COVID-19 affect our immune cells. Credit: La Jolla Institute for Immunology LA JOLLA, CA—New research shows how genetic variations linked to severe cases of COVID-19 affect our immune cells.

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MARCH 26, 2021

There’s a new kid on the block among companies using artificial intelligence in drug discovery, after 1910 Genetics launched today with $26 million in financing. 1910 Genetics is named after the year in which sickle cell disease (SCD) was first discovered in the US by James Herrick.

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MAY 7, 2021

Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, May 7, 2021 – In a paper published today in Nature Communications, an international group of collaborators led by researchers at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh have identified a genetic cause of a rare neurological disorder marked by developmental delay and loss of coordination, or ataxia.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Ben Hargreaves finds that the vast amount of genetic data that exists today could help provide a faster, more targeted way of developing new drug candidates. The logical extension to this kind of approach is treating individual patients, with their individual genetic makeup.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

A web-based digital tool called Helix could help clinicians identify patients with prostate cancer who would benefit from genetic testing and counselling, according to researchers in the US. ” The post Helix web tool guides prostate cancer genetic testing appeared first on.

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MAY 14, 2023

For two decades, scientists have been comparing every person's full set of DNA they study to a template that relies mostly on genetic material from one man affectionately known as "the guy from Buffalo."

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Scienmag

JULY 22, 2022

Genome sequencing, where scientists use laboratory methods to determine a specific organism’s genetic makeup, is becoming a common practice in insect research.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

A team of Gladstone and UCSF scientists used a large-scale genetic approach to map the structure of protein complexes in live cells Credit: QBI, UCSF SAN FRANCISCO, CA–December 10, 2020–One of biologists’ most vexing tasks is figuring out how proteins, the molecules that carry the brunt of a cell’s work, do their job.

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Scienmag

JULY 5, 2022

Scientists have revealed the genetic and molecular structure of key molecules linked to the sometimes life-threatening mammalian-meat allergy brought on by tick bites.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

BEIJING — Hong Kong on Tuesday revoked a visa it granted to a Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate five years ago with claims that he made the world’s first genetically edited babies, pulling it hours after he announced his research plans in the financial hub.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

In 2016, scientists behind a study called the Resilience Project analysed genetic data from 589,000+ people and found 13 adults who carried genetic variants that should have resulted in serious – even deadly – childhood disease, but who were apparently healthy. Giving participants something in return.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In our cells, the language of DNA is written, making each of us unique. A tandem repeat occurs in DNA when a pattern of one or more nucleotides—the basic structural unit of DNA coded in the base of chemicals cytosine (C), adenine (A), guanine (G) and thymine (T)—is repeated multiple times in tandem.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Surgeons in the US have carried out the world’s first transplant of a pig kidney into a human, a feat made possible by genetic modification of the organ and an experimental immunosuppressant drug regimen to prevent rejection.

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Credit: Gemma Clucas Gentoo penguins should be reclassified as four separate species, say scientists at the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath, after analysing the genetic and physical differences between populations around the southern hemisphere.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Credit: Photo: IPK Leibniz Institute/ Andreas Bähring In order to record all genetic information of an individual, its genome must be completely decoded. IPK scientists and international partners for barley already succeeded in doing this three years ago (Mascher et al.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have removed a major roadblock to better understanding of mpox (formerly, monkeypox).

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JUNE 28, 2022

Whether fighting a cancer or a chronic infection, they become less effective over time, a phenomenon dubbed “T cell exhaustion” by scientists. Now, researchers at Gladstone Institutes and Stanford University have revealed the genetic switches that get […].

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Scientists at University of Florida (UF) Scripps Biomedical Research have developed a potential medicine for a leading cause of ALS and dementia that works by eliminating disease-causing segments of RNA. The compound restored the health of neurons in the lab and rescued mice with the disease.

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JULY 20, 2022

Now, scientists in the UK think they have found a culprit implicated in cancer. Junk DNA is a term used to describe the 97% of the genetic sequence in human cells found between the 3% coding for our 20,000 genes, once thought to be inert. The post UK scientists say they have found cancer driver in junk DNA appeared first on.

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