Scientists have found that some antibodies, created by the immune system during infection with common cold coronaviruses, can also target the Covid-19 causing SARS-CoV-2, and
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Coronavirus: As Covid-19 deaths hit 1 million, scientist says toll may be double
The world officially recorded 1 million deaths from Covid-19 in one of the most sobering milestones of the pandemic, but the real tally might be
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Biological sex affects genes for body fat, cancer, birth weight
Biological sex has a small but ubiquitous influence on gene expression in almost every type of human tissue, reports a new study from Northwestern Medicine,
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Mutations linked to expression of genes associated with complex traits
Hard-to-study mutations in the human genome, called short tandem repeats, known as STRs or microsatellites, are implicated in the expression of genes associated with complex
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Gene editing tool gets sharpened by WFIRM team
Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine scientists have fine-tuned their delivery system to deliver a DNA editing tool to alter DNA sequences and modify gene
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Scientists discover hidden differences among cells that may help them evade drug therapy: The discovery by UMD researchers suggests ‘functional mosaicism’ could explain some antibiotic resistance and cancer relapse
University of Maryland researchers have discovered that seemingly identical cells can use different protein molecules to carry out the same function in an important cellular
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New method for imaging biological molecules
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have, together with colleagues from Aalto University in Finland, developed a new method for creating images of molecules in
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Researchers move beyond sequencing and create a 3D genome: Read how scientists have used a 3D genome to improve understanding of gene regulation during development and disease
Like pirates on a treasure hunt, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have created the first 3D map of a mouse genome and used it
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Cancer susceptibility genes
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified hundreds of genetic “risk” variants for human cancers. The vast majority likely contribute to cancer development by regulating the
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Key protein for Epstein-Barr virus infection
Scientists at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona (IBMB-CSIC) have published a study in the journal
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