Researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine have diagnosed a Sumatran Orangutan at the Indianapolis Zoo with a rare genetic disease called Alkaptonuria. This is the first time the disease has been confirmed molecularly ...
Veterinary medicine
Jul 27, 2023
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A lethal microbial pathogen is lurking in warm freshwater ponds, reservoirs, and rivers around the globe: Naegleria fowleri, colloquially called brain-eating amoeba, which causes the disease primary amebic meningoencephalitis ...
Biochemistry
Feb 9, 2023
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Medical innovations typically take 17 years from the time a lightbulb goes off in a scientist's head until the first person benefits.
Biotechnology
Jan 31, 2023
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Two British chemists who developed a super-fast DNA sequencing technique that paved the way for revolutionary healthcare advances were on Tuesday awarded Finland's version of the Nobel science prizes.
Other
May 18, 2021
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Networks offer a powerful way to visualize and analyze complex systems. However, depending on the size and complexity of the network, many visualizations are limited. Protein interactions in the human body constitute such ...
Biotechnology
Apr 23, 2021
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For the last eight years, the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) Consortium (and its predecessor, the Exome Aggregation Consortium, or ExAC), has been working with geneticists around the world to compile and study more ...
Biotechnology
May 28, 2020
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The frequency of genetic variants associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has decreased progressively in the evolutionary human lineage from the Palaeolithic to nowadays, according to a study published ...
Evolution
May 27, 2020
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A specialised system of ducts transports bile and enzymes from the liver and pancreas to the intestine. In a new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have shown how this ductal system is formed. The new knowledge ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 3, 2019
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We are in the midst of a fascinating journey to understand the cellular phenotypes that compose human bodies and how the human genome is used to build and maintain each cell. "To catalog our human cell types, to understand ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 15, 2019
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The DNA of every organism holds the blueprints for building all the proteins it needs for its metabolic processes. While researchers already know what the blueprints look like for most proteins, they do not know what many ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 4, 2017
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