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Researchers shed new light on role of DNA in human development
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Sinai Health researchers discovered that DNA elements known as transposons, which may roam around the genome, influence a vital shift in early human development, rather than our own genes.
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Study finds new ways to prevent, treat type 2 diabetes
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Pancreatic cells, like human cells, have a limit to how much stress they can handle before they start to break down. Through overstimulation of these cells, certain stresses like inflammation and hyperglycemia lead to the onset of type 2 diabetes.
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Researchers give more insight into how new genes arise from nothing
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
The DNA of living species encode their complexity, but where do these genes come from? The University of Helsinki researchers answered long-standing problems about the development of small regulatory genes and described a way for generating their DNA palindromes. Under the correct conditions
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Study reveals new genes can arise from nothing
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Living species' genes encode their complexity, but where do these genes come from? The University of Helsinki researchers answered long-standing questions about the formation of tiny regulatory genes and outlined a method that generates their DNA palindromes. Under the right conditions, thes
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Gene discoveries might help prevent deadly coronary artery disease: Resear
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
A multinational team of researchers has found nearly a dozen genes that contribute to calcium buildup in our coronary arteries, which can lead to life-threatening coronary artery disease, which accounts for up to one in every four fatalities in the United States. Doctors may be able to targe
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Disease-causing stem cells in lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis: Stud
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Five lung stem cell variants predominate in the lungs of patients with advanced cystic fibrosis (CF), Wa Xian and Frank McKeon, two nationally renowned experts in cloning and stem cell science from the University of Houston report. These variants are responsible for important CF pathology fe
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Researchers find how Alzheimer’s disease linked to genetic variants with b
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Scientists investigating Alzheimer's disease (AD) have discovered millions of genetic variations in the genome that contribute to the progression of this progressive neurological illness.
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Schizophrenia genetic risk factor weakens mitochondrial function: Study
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Researchers have investigated overlapping patterns of altered gene activity in two separate models of the 3q29 deletion syndrome, including human brain organoids and mice with the deletion produced via CRIPSR. Mitochondrial activity has declined in each of these systems.
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Study reveals how Schizophrenia genetic risk factor weakens mitochondrial
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
By examining the strongest known genetic risk factor for schizophrenia, scientists at Rutgers University and Emory University are learning more about how the disease manifests.
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Study reveals genetic cause of intellectual impairment, autism
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A study has shown the biological foundations of a reproductive problem brought on by a gene mutation. Fragile X Syndrome, a major hereditary cause of intellectual disability and autism, is also brought on by this gene mutation.
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Researchers discover brain proteins that may play important role in body w
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Body mass index, or BMI, variation in the population may be caused by genetic variables to the extent of 50-75 per cent. Researchers from Universite Laval and the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute Research Center have discovered 60 distinct proteins produced in the brain that may be important
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Disabling single gene in cnidarians causes stinging cell to lose sting
Updated : 3 years ago IST
According to a study, when scientists transformed a single regulatory gene in a sea anemone species, a stinging cell that normally shoots a venomous miniature harpoon for hunting and self-defence switched to shooting a sticky thread that entangles prey.
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