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Drug-resistant "dual mutant" flu strains now being tracked in U.S., CDC says
CBS News· 6 days agoAt least two human cases of the new so-called "dual mutant" strains of H1N1 influenza have been...
Y chromosome is evolving faster than the X, primate study reveals
Live Science via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoOne reason the Y seems to have thrived despite such a high rate of mutation is that across all the...
Why 4 new bird flu developments have experts worried about the virus
Business Insider· 6 days agoThis story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start...
Towards molecular and phenotypic characterization of VEXAS syndrome
Medical Xpress· 6 days agoVEXAS syndrome is a rare, adult-onset, life-threatening autoinflammatory disease caused by a genetic...
A Bird-Flu Pandemic in People? Here’s What It Might Look Like.
The New York Times via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoThe bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle has so far spilled over to just three farmworkers in the...
Lung-targeted CRISPR therapy offers hope for cystic fibrosis
New Scientist· 5 days agoThe approach has succeeded in editing DNA in hard-to-reach lung stem cells in mice, with...
Can we prevent a bird flu pandemic in humans?
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoA highly pathogenic subtype of avian influenza (or bird flu), known as H5N1 is spreading among animals worldwide. For the past couple of decades, global...
Decoding the genetic program of micronucleus formation: linking chromosomal instability to human...
Nature· 4 days agoA recent study by Adams and colleagues published in Nature unveiled more than one hundred genes that are involved in micronucleus formation,1 which is a biomarker for genomic instability and associated with aging, cancer, and other
Researchers discover potential mole reversal therapy in rare condition
Medical Xpress· 20 hours agoSmall skin moles are common in the population, but in congenital melanocytic naevus syndrome (CMN), children are born with up to 80% of their body covered in big, painful or itchy moles, caused ...
A Poisonous Diet Gives These Animals Their Own Toxic Defense
Smithsonian Magazine· 6 days agoNoah Whiteman, a University of California, Berkeley, evolutionary biologist and author of Most...