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Were Ancient Humans Healthier Than Us

WebA curious thing happened when researchers at Georgia Tech used modern human genome sequences to look back at the possible health of our long-ago ancestors – they found …

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Why Do Healthy People Have Harmful Mutations

WebThat looks like a healthy person with a devastating mutation. A similar scenario is true for Alzheimer disease. Mutations in apoE4 increase risk, while mutations in the amyloid …

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When Does a Human Life Begin

Web10. Day 18. The heart beats. 11. Day 28. The notochord closes, and within it the neural tube forms, preliminary to the spinal cord, while the bulge at the top will come to house the …

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How DNA Ancestry Testing is Like the Wheel of Fortune: …

WebA “single nucleotide polymorphism” is a site in the genome where the DNA base – A, T, C, or G – varies in a population. Let’s say an ancestry company compares about 770,000 of …

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Progress in Treating Genetic Disease: Dwarfism, Inborn …

WebIt’s been nearly a decade since my book The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It, was published.The field hasn’t come as far as I’d hoped, with FDA approvals …

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Genetic Signature for Drug Addiction Revealed in New …

WebDrug addiction is prevalent and deadly. In the US in 2021, more than 46 million people aged 12 or older had addiction to at least one substance, yet only 6.3% received treatment, …

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Y Chromosome Loss Linked to Hiked Heart Disease Risk: …

WebThis is a good summary. As my 2nd scientific mentor used to say back in about 1990 – most folk do not really understand how wounds repair. Shame there was no mention of UTY …

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The H5N8 Bird Flu and Why We Should Pay Attention

WebBefore COVID, reports of a new bird flu trickling or even sweeping out of Asia didn’t garner much attention. That’s certainly changed. So when two members of the China Novel …

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The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese: A …

WebIn the new literary fiction masterpiece The Covenant of Water, author-physician Abraham Verghese traces an unusual trait through three generations of a Christian family in India, …

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On the Anniversary of the Pandemic, Considering the Bioweapon

WebA year ago, the Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, delivered the message that would divide time: “WHO has been assessing …

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Menkes Disease Treatment on the Horizon, After Nearly Three …

WebMenkes Disease Treatment on the Horizon, After Nearly Three Decades. Lucas DeFabio had Menkes disease (Daniel DeFabio) Headlines often trumpet the latest in gene editing, …

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Alzheimer’s Treatments in the Pipeline and the False Promise of

WebWhen you choose to publish with PLOS, your research makes an impact. Make your work accessible to all, without restrictions, and accelerate scientific discovery with options like …

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An Advocate for the Amish at a Very Special Clinic

WebLast Wednesday, I finally met Dr. D. Holmes Morton, a pediatrician who is quietly conquering genetic disease among the Amish and Mennonites – on their own turf, at the …

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Cats’ Genomes Make Them Good Models for Human Disease

WebOne study of the genomes of 54 unrelated cats revealed high genetic diversity, with each animal’s genome harboring about 10 million SNPs. A human genome has only 4 to 5 …

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Rare Disease in TV Series: Stranger Things, House, Call the Midwife

WebA major character on Netflix ’s Stranger Things, Dustin Henderson (played by Gaten Matarazzo III), has cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD), which affects the bones and teeth. …

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6 Types of Exercise That Counter Inherited Obesity Risk

WebOverall, six types of exercise appeared to counter the genetic effects on at least one obesity measure. Jogging Wins. Regular jogging blunted the genetic effects on obesity the most …

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Identical Twins, Physical Fitness, and Transgender

WebThe terrific new documentary “Three Identical Strangers” tells the remarkable tale of triplets separated in infancy who met for the first time at age 19, in 1980. Their matching faces, …

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Camel Milk and Autism: Connecting the Genetic Dots

WebCamel milk delivers potent anti-oxidants that might temper autism symptoms, wrote King Saud University researchers Laila Al-Ayadhi and Nadra Elyass Elamin in a 2013 report. …

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