In a new study from SciLifeLab at Uppsala University, researchers have found a total of 141 regions (genes) in our
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Genetic screen identifies genes that protect cells from Zika virus: Genes found to safeguard against infection as well as resuscitate infected cells
The Zika virus has affected over 60 million people, mostly in South America. It has potentially devastating consequences for pregnant
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Does genetic testing pose psychosocial risks?
For the last quarter century, researchers have been asking whether genetic information might have negative psychosocial effects. Anxiety, depression, disrupted
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Preventing hereditary deafness: Optimized gene-editing tool prevents hearing loss in mice with hereditary deafness without detectable off-target effects
Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital have used a novel gene-editing approach to salvage the hearing of
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How human cells react to external signals and further process them
Researchers from Heidelberg University and Sendai University in Japan used new biotechnological methods to study how human cells react to
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Networks of gene activity control organ development: Evolutionary studies on developmental genetic programs across mammals
For the first time, researchers have decoded the genetic programmes that control the development of major organs in humans and
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Life in Antarctica’s ice mirrors human disease
The cooling of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, which began approximately 35 million years ago and gave rise to its
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The bacteria building your baby: Exposure to influential bacteria begins before we are born, new evidence confirms
Australian researchers have laid to rest a longstanding controversy: is the womb sterile? They carefully collected amniotic fluid samples from
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Research: New approaches for future therapies: 166 new risk genes for renal diseases discovered
Researchers discovered many new genetic causes of kidney diseases In Germany, more and more people are living with kidney disease.
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Sudden fainting caused by a Gene
Behind a fainting, a particular Gene may be stuck Fainting is not caused only by external factors, but also the
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