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Does your child snore? Links found to brain changes and behavioral problems as they grow older
[R]esearchers examined MRI images collected from more than 10,000 children aged 9 to 10 years enrolled in the Adolescent Brain ...
Why are women at higher risk for depression while more men suffer from schizophrenia? It’s in our genes
[M]ore than 100 investigators and research groups... combed through the genomes of 33,403 people with schizophrenia, 19,924 with bipolar disorder, ...
Opening the door to understanding infertility: Skin cells reprogrammed into a model human embryo
[Scientists have made a] significant breakthrough for the future study of early human development and infertility. To date, the only ...
A protein inherited from Neanderthals may offer limited protection against COVID-19
Recent advances in proteomic technology - that is, the capacity to isolate and measure hundreds of circulating proteins at once ...
How structural racism undermines independent science research and hurts racial and ethnic minorities
It is critical to acknowledge the societal structures - the groundwater, as it is called in "The Groundwater Approach: Building ...
BAPCO: A new theory explains why autism numbers are growing
A unifying explanation of the cause of autism and the reason for its rising prevalence has eluded scientists for decades, ...
Men and women require distinct brain tumor therapies, underscoring hard-wired differences in the brain
[Glioblastomas] are the most aggressive tumors of the brain and occur at 60% higher rates in males, whether human or ...
Stem cell transplants show promise as possible AIDS cure
[A study] demonstrated a successful stem cell transplantation from donors harboring an HIV-resistant gene. Blood taken from the patient revealed ...
Our Neanderthal DNA might explain who gets sickest from COVID-19
[A] small fragment of the genetic code that has been inherited by modern humans from Neanderthals could carry the secret ...
‘More versatile and less error prone’ SATI gene editing could eventually replace CRISPR
[S]cientists at the Salk Institute have developed a potential game changer in this field – a new gene editor called ...
Your own fruit fly ‘avatars’ could boost precision medicine treatments
Personalized cancer medicine involves looking at an individual’s genome and cancer growth to help find more effective ways of screening ...
Will two daily cups of coffee help you live longer? This study says so.
There have been studies saying coffee drinking increases longevity and general health and also studies to the contrary. Now, the ...
Better understanding of how genes work together could be key to personalized medicine
Tens of thousands of people have had their genomes sequenced yet it remains a major challenge to infer future health ...
Viewpoint: There’s reason to be skeptical of ‘fountain of youth’ pills
Renowned Harvard University geneticist David Sinclair recently made a startling assertion: Scientific data shows he has knocked more than two ...
‘Trojan horse’ ‘TV’ drug shows potential to fight 6 different cancers
A brand new type of cancer drug that acts as a 'Trojan horse' to get inside tumor cells has shown ...
Women have ‘younger’ brains than similarly aged men
A new study has revealed that women have a more youthful brain compared to similar aged male counterparts when it ...
Your genes may affect how much you exercise and sleep
Time spent sitting, sleeping and moving is determined in part by our genes, University of Oxford researchers have shown. In ...
