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Q&A: Expert explains public health concerns on avian flu
Medical Xpress· 9 hours agoThe presence of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) virus in dairy cattle and milk has put...
Gene therapy breakthrough allows toddler born deaf to hear
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 6 days agoWhile implants...otherwise inert virus—“a dual adeno-associated virus (AAV1) vector designed for...
Some Papua New Guineans Have Denisovan Genes, And It Might Protect Them From Malaria
IFLScience· 1 day agoNew research has found that lowland populations of Papua New Guinea have Denisovan genes that may...
A Brain Breakthrough 25 Years in the Making
The Scientist· 2 days agoThe patient had spinocerebellar ataxia type 4 (SCA4), a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes muscle weakness, movement difficulty, and loss...
Genetic regulation of human brain proteome reveals proteins implicated in psychiatric disorders -...
Nature· 7 days agoGenome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of genomic susceptibility loci with susceptibility to psychiatric disorders; however, the contribution of these loci to the underlying ...
Mutations protected mice from B-cell cancers | Newswise
Newswise· 2 days ago“We used a purely genetic method to find a drug target, and that target turns out to be sensational...
Bird Flu Has Made It to the Big Apple
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoAvian influenza has come for New York City’s birds. In a new study Wednesday, scientists report traces of highly pathogenic H5N1 in a small number of...
Papua New Guineans, genetically isolated for 50,000 years, carry Denisovan genes that help their...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 days agoGenes inherited from Denisovans, extinct human relatives, may help Papua New Guineans in the...
What’s Happening With The Y Chromosome?
IFLScience· 18 hours agoThe human Y chromosome isn’t what it used to be – long gone are the days when it used to be the same size as its pal, X. It’s now much smaller, but is it...
The Scandalous Science Behind Nuclear Regulation
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoIts influence traces back to Hermann Muller, a geneticist and 1946 Nobel Prize winner. Muller's research in the 1920s and '30s claimed to show that...
