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Scientists unlock cancer's ancestry
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Could knowing where your ancestors came from be the key to better cancer treatments? Maybe, but where would that key fit? How can we trace cancer's ancestral roots to modern-day solutions? For Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Research Professor Alexander Krasnitz, the answers may lie dee
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Study reveals genetic risk for Dementia among people of African descent
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a research published in the journal 'Molecular Psychiatry', scientists discovered many instances where gene variations may increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among people of African ancestry.
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Researchers give new insights into genetic causes of high cholesterol
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 23 (ANI): A new research led by geneticists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health in collaboration with several other organisations, including the University of Otago and the Samoan health research community, the discovery of a genetic variant that
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Research: New insights into genetic causes of high cholesterol
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) [US], October 21 (ANI): According to new research led by geneticists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health in collaboration with several other organisations, including the University of Otago and the Samoan health research community, the discovery
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Primordial armored worm Wufengella reveals ancestry of three animal groups
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 28 (ANI): Scientists have discovered that a well-preserved fossilized worm dating from 518 million years ago resembles the ancestor of three major groups of living animals.
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A Tibetan exile's account of being stateless in world of nation-states
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], July 28 (ANI): Tenzin Jampa, is a Tibetan student born and raised in India. Currently an undergraduate at MIT, Cambridge, US shared his pain of being stateless in the world of nation-states.
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Genetic research: Pacific islands yield surprising findings on world's ear
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 9 (ANI): New genetic research from remote islands in the Pacific offers fresh insights into the ancestry and culture of the world's earliest seafarers, including family structure, social customs, and the ancestral populations of the people living there today.
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Study: Dog ancestry traces back to two wolf populations
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 3 (ANI): According to the publications in the 'Nature' journal, a recent study conducted by an international team of Francis Crick Institute's archaeologists and geneticists has found that a dog's ancestry can be traced back to at least two prehistoric wolf populations.
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Dogs trace ancestry to two separate wolf populations, study reveals
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 29 (ANI): According to a new study by an international group of geneticists and archaeologists of the Francis Crick Institute, have discovered that the ancestry of dogs can be traced to at least two populations of ancient wolves. The study revealed the answer to the mos
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Study finds seven healthy practises linked to lower risk of dementia in pe
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Minnesota [US], June 15 (ANI): According to new research by the American Institute of Neurology, seven healthy habits and lifestyle factors may play a role in lowering the incidence of dementia in persons with the highest hereditary risk.
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Genetic variant in children may reduce leptin production resulting in obes
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 6 (ANI): Children of African ancestry are at a higher risk of developing obesity if they possess a genetic variant that reduces their ability to produce the hormone, leptin, a recent study has found.
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Child weight gain linked to ability to produce leptin: Study
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 28 (ANI): Children having African ancestry are more prone to developing obesity if they possess a genetic variant that reduces their ability to produce the hormone leptin.
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