While today’s technology is growing increasingly wireless, nature’s greatest technology, the human brain, still depends on neurons being directly connected
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Researchers are first to sequence rare bacteria that causes rampant tooth decay
Fruit fly larvae can taste ribonucleosides, the building blocks of gene transcripts, according to a new study publishing on August
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Analytical tool predicts genes that can cause disease by producing altered proteins
Predicting genes that can cause disease due to the production of truncated or altered proteins that take on a new
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Overcoming a major barrier to developing liquid biopsies: A new study helps set standards for RNA sequencing, improving consistency and laying the foundation to move the field forward
The idea of testing blood or urine to find markers that help diagnose or treat disease holds great promise. But
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Finding the proteins that unpack DNA
A new method allows researchers to systematically identify specialized proteins that unpack DNA inside the nucleus of a cell, making
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Gene therapy shown to cure type 2 diabetes and obesity in mice, researchers report
A research team from the UAB led by Professor Fatima Bosch has managed to cure obesity and type 2 diabetes
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Loss of cilia leads to melanoma
Melanomas are one of the most aggressive types of tumors in humans. Despite remarkable success with new forms of treatment
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Genetic ancestry test users ‘cherry-pick’ which races to identify with
Genetic ancestry tests are often advertised as a tool to uncover new connections to diverse cultures and ancestries, but new
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Of hearts and giants: Moving a cardiac regulatory protein to the right place
The largest known protein, the appropriately named titin after the Titan giants of Greek mythology, is a molecular spring found
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CRISPR editing reduces repetitive behavior in mice with a form of autism: Gold nanoparticles carried Cas9 enzyme into brain, editing receptor and lessening burying behavior
Scientists have used CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to lessen some autism symptoms in mice with a form of fragile X syndrome,
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