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Chromatin accessibility maps reveal how stem cells drive myelodysplastic syndrome progression
Over the past few decades, advances in hematology have illuminated how a delicate balance between stem cell self-renewal and differentiation sustains healthy blood formation. In myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), however, this ...
Dec 13, 2025
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Circular single-stranded DNA molecules for safer genetic medicine
To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most genetic medicine uses viruses or double-stranded DNA to deliver genetic information to target cells. ...
Dec 13, 2025
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In search for autism's causes, look at genes, not vaccines, researchers say
Earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged that the search for autism's cause—a question that has kept researchers busy for the better part of six decades—would be over in just ...
Dec 13, 2025
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How hippocampal synapses adjust their proteins to specialize their function
A research team led by Dr. Àlex Bayés, Head of the Molecular Physiology of the Synapse Group at the Institut de Recerca Sant Pau (IR Sant Pau), has achieved what for decades had been an elusive goal: obtaining a precise, ...
Dec 12, 2025
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The role of enhancer regions in psychiatric illness: Study explores genetic risk factors
In a study published in Genome Research, a team of researchers, including Cornell College Assistant Professor of Biology Sophie Gillett, looked at regions of human genetic code that are known for harboring risk factors for ...
Dec 12, 2025
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Scientists uncover key driver of treatment-resistant cancer: Genome-scrambling enzyme points to new treatments
University of California San Diego researchers have discovered the enzyme responsible for chromothripsis, a process in which a single chromosome is shattered into pieces and rearranged in a scrambled order, allowing cancer ...
Dec 11, 2025
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Genetic overlap of 14 psychiatric disorders explains why patients often have multiple diagnoses
An international collective of researchers is delivering new insights into why having multiple psychiatric disorders is the norm rather than the exception. In a study published today in the journal Nature, the team provides ...
Dec 10, 2025
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Genomic maps untangle the complex roots of disease
Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies that target those genes to restore health.
Dec 10, 2025
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Uncovering the why behind cleft lip and palate with live imaging and gene editing
Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors which, in early fetal development, can result in babies with facial differences such as a cleft lip or cleft palate. If not treated, ...
Dec 10, 2025
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Reverse genetics open new path to norovirus vaccine and drug development
Norovirus is the leading cause of gastroenteritis and is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths every year. However, research progress into antiviral treatments and vaccines has been hindered by the absence of a ...
Dec 10, 2025
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Genetic modifier of Friedreich's ataxia points toward treatment for devastating disorder
Friedreich's ataxia (FA) is a rare but devastating genetic disorder. Those with the condition are often diagnosed between 5 and 15 years of age and live only into their 30s or 40s. There is no widely approved treatment that ...
Dec 10, 2025
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Mobile DNA elements reveal their role in lung cancer progression
Using lung cancer biospecimens from the Sherlock-Lung study, an international team led by National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers, identified key factors that drive tumor evolution and influence outcomes. Overall, ...
Dec 10, 2025
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From dots to lines: New database catalogs human gene types using 'ACTG' rules
Whether you turn red when drinking alcohol, dislike certain smells, or metabolize drugs differently from others, the explanation often lies in your DNA, or more precisely, your gene types.
Dec 10, 2025
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How errors in the cytoskeleton lead to a smaller brain
Why do some children develop a brain that is too small (microcephaly)? An international research team involving the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ), Hannover Medical School (MHH), and ...
Dec 10, 2025
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Genetic links found between addiction risk and educational attainment
A new study published in Addiction has identified genetic factors that influence both a person's risk of developing an addiction and their educational attainment. Researchers found that some genetic variants affect both traits ...
Dec 10, 2025
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Study identifies misleading genomic sequences of bacteria causing gonorrhea
Northwestern Medicine investigators have identified issues with most genomic sequence data for the Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacterium, findings that could complicate future epidemiological and pathogenesis studies, according ...
Dec 10, 2025
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New gene-mapping method unlocks hidden drivers of cancer
University of South Australia scientists have developed a powerful new way to uncover the genetic interactions that fuel cancer progression, paving the way for earlier and more precise treatments.
Dec 9, 2025
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Computational tool can detect how genetic interactions impact human traits
A new study has developed a powerful computational method that can detect how genes interact with each other to influence complex traits in humans at a scale previously impossible. The new method was applied to massive datasets ...
Dec 9, 2025
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Using genetics to predict who is at risk of developing type 1 diabetes could inform large-scale health studies
A test using genetics to predict who is at the highest risk of developing type 1 diabetes could one day be applied to large-scale health studies, to identify adults who could benefit from new drugs, new research shows.
Dec 9, 2025
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Study finds epigenetic signature of pediatric traumatic brain injury, paves way for precision recovery tools
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh discovered a promising new biomarker of "complicated" mild to severe pediatric traumatic brain injury, or TBI. Unlike a concussion—which ...
Dec 9, 2025
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Rare genetic disorder linked to liver damage, low blood sugar and fat loss
A rare genetic disorder discovered by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers and their colleagues can cause brain damage from dangerously low blood sugar levels and liver damage in infants, along with variable body fat ...
Dec 9, 2025
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Astrocyte diversity across space and time charted in new atlas
When it comes to brain function, neurons get a lot of the glory. But healthy brains depend on the cooperation of many kinds of cells. The most abundant of the brain's non-neuronal cells are astrocytes, star-shaped cells with ...
Dec 8, 2025
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Pancreatic cancer cells 'speak the language' of organs they will later invade, study reveals
Even as they develop at their primary site, pancreatic cancer cells are already expressing the genes that will determine where they will metastasize, according to new findings from Columbia researchers. The work, published ...
Dec 8, 2025
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Scientists reveal new genetic risk for severe macular degeneration
A new study published in Nature Communications reveals the specific genetic factors linked to the presence of reticular pseudodrusen—deposits that drive vision loss and are found on the retina of up to 60% of people with ...
Dec 8, 2025
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Childhood leukemia aggressiveness depends on timing of genetic mutation, research reveals
A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has uncovered why children with the same leukemia-causing gene mutation can have dramatically different outcomes: It depends on when in development the ...
Dec 8, 2025
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