Dan Cossins
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DNA techniques show how HIV takes down the immune system
HIV leads to AIDS primarily because the virus destroys essential immune cells called CD4 T cells, but precisely how these ...
Mediterranean diet reduces genetic stroke risk
Eating a Mediterranean diet may lower the risk of stroke and offset other negative effects associated with a genetic variant ...

Is gene therapy coming of age?
Researchers are promising results from gene therapy trials for the treatment of two different rare diseases ...
Probing the genetics of intelligence
The following is an excerpt of a longer story. Researchers in China will scour the genomes of 1,600 super-smart people in ...
Genome digest: What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
The following is an editorial summary of a longer story. Find a link to the full story below. What can ...