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Genetic defect may render local anesthesia useless for some patients

Bryan Nelson | 
Local anesthetic resistance is a rare condition that's so poorly researched that many medical professionals refuse to acknowledge that it's ...
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Mini brains grown from teeth stem cells reveal secrets of sociability

Andy Coghlan | 
Can tiny brains grown in a dish reveal the secrets of sociability? Balls of brain tissue generated from stem cells ...
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Autism risk may be related to genes that influence sex-specific traits

Ann Griswold | 
Genetic variants that shape physical features that vary with sex, such as waist-to-hip ratio, may also affect autism risk, according ...
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Piltdown Man evolution hoax reminds us about danger of confirmation bias

David Warmflash | 
A 100-year-old hoax involving the "discovery" of a missing link in the human evolution chain provides insights into the pitfalls ...
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Biology and genetic engineering innovations converging in 2017 to ‘blow our minds’

Justin Sanchez | 
[DARPA's]  new Biological Technologies Office (BTO) has a mission to “harness the power of biological systems” and design new defense ...
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Genetics may have played a part in electing Trump president

Andrew Porterfield | 
Do our genetics influence whether we lean to the political left or right? It's obviously more complicated than that, but ...
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Alzheimer’s linked gene may protect brain from parasites

Ed Yong | 
People who carry one copy [of the ApoE4 gene] have a three-fold higher risk of Alzheimer’s than those with none...Even if ...
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Premature babies show signs of abnormal brain activity before birth

Even before they are born, premature babies may display alterations in the circuitry of their developing brains, according to a ...
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Aggressive brain tumors temporarily halted using genetically modified immune cells

Karen Ring | 
One of the most deadly types of cancers are glioblastomas – a particularly aggressive form of brain tumor. Patients diagnosed ...
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We did not evolve small teeth because of brain development or primitive food-cutting tools

Lea Surugue | 
The human brain and teeth have not evolved together in humans, unlike what past studies had suggested. ... Compared with ...
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation: Can strong magnetics revive your sex drive?

Meredith Knight | 
If TMS, which is already FDA approved to treat depression, can reverse sexual dysfunction, it would be a boon particularly ...
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‘Brain blobs’ genetically engineered from stem cells can track effects of Zika virus

Ryan Mandelbaum | 
[C]ombined with gene editing techniques like CRISPR, it seems like there’s almost nothing you can’t just whip up in a ...
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Differences in brain wiring could explain why some people learn languages quicker

Veronique Greenwood | 
Babies' ability to soak up language makes them the envy of adult learners everywhere. Still, some grown-ups can acquire new ...
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“Getting Risk Right”: Geoffrey Kabat on health, risk and bad science

Josh Bloom | 
Why do things that are unlikely to harm us get the most attention? Dr. Geoffrey Kabat, a cancer epidemiologist at ...

Discovery of gene mutations for motor disorder leads to treatment in children

Ian Sample | 
Doctors have discovered a new genetic disorder that robs children of the ability to walk normally and makes it hard ...
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Fast food ads may entice kids with obesity genes more than other children

Randy Dotinga | 
Children with a genetic trait linked to obesity may be more likely than other kids to respond to fast-food commercials ...
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Motherhood changes your brain to connect better with newborn

Andy Coghlan | 
Elseline Hoekzema at Leiden University in the Netherlands and her team compared brain scans of 25 first-time mothers with those ...
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Vampire therapy: Can blood from the young fight aging?

Meredith Knight | 
Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel has expressed his reluctance to age quite vocally. He has also put his money where ...
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“Early” intervention can be too late: Cancer cells spread much sooner than assumed

Sharon Begley | 
Cancer cells are able to spread from a nascent tumor much earlier than scientists long thought and are more adept than ...
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Science and technology in food production can limit environmental footprint while increasing production

Jayson Lusk | 
The Breakthrough Institute is in the midst of releasing a series of articles on the future of food.  The latest article ...
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Single gene may make deadly brain cancer more fatal

Scientists have identified a gene that is overactive in a deadly form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma, according to ...
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Malfunctioning of 320 gene ‘epileptic network’ may trigger epilepsy

Gopi Adusumilli | 
British scientists have identified a gene network in the brain that is associated with epilepsy, a discovery which may lead ...
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Genes essential for healthy fetal development tied to autism

Genes known to be essential to life–the ones humans need to survive and thrive in the womb–also play a critical ...
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Mystery of rare diseases: Why diagnoses remain elusive

Elizabeth Newbern | 
Milo Loretzen is one of only three people in the world known to have been diagnosed with a mutation in ...
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How one gene influences many diseases

In this new study the scientists show that the gene region which controls FADS1 appeared 6 million years ago and ...
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DNA mutations can influence far away genes as easily as those close-by

Jessica Wright | 
A new chart of DNA’s loops and twists reveals its three-dimensional (3-D) structure in the developing brain. It shows that ...
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Future of Alzheimer’s treatment? Flickering lights

Ed Yong | 
[If neurons fire] 30 to 90 times [in a single second], that’s a gamma wave, which has been linked to ...
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