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July 6, 2023 — As a psychiatric disorder with onset in adulthood, schizophrenia is thought to be triggered by some combination of environmental factors and genetics, although the exact cause is still not fully ...
Mar. 9, 2021 — Researchers have long searched for genetic influences in schizophrenia, a neurodevelopmental disorder that disrupts brain activity producing hallucinations, delusions, and other cognitive ...
Nov. 25, 2020 — Telomeres are specialized structures at the end of chromosomes which protect our DNA and ensure healthy division of cells. According to a new study, the mechanisms of telomere protection are ...
Apr. 28, 2021 — For the first time, scientists are able to study changes in the DNA of any human tissue, following the resolution of long-standing technical challenges. The new method, called nanorate sequencing ...
Apr. 7, 2021 — A peptide nucleic acid-based gene editing technique is an essential part of the gene editing toolkit in addition to CRISPR-Cas ...
Apr. 20, 2022 — Researchers found that changes accumulated in the brain cells of patients with Alzheimer's disease at a faster rate, potentially explaining why brain cells die and revealing new pathways to ...
June 1, 2022 — Researchers have discovered how genetic mutations accumulated slowly over a lifetime lead to dramatic changes in how blood is formed after the age of 70, providing a new theory for ...
Jan. 12, 2023 — It's not just the number of mutations that matters. It's the failure to fix them ...
May 6, 2022 — Researchers have developed a new tool to help researchers interpret the clinical significance of somatic mutations in cancer. The tool, known as CancerVar, incorporates machine learning frameworks to ...
Oct. 12, 2020 — As public interest and expanded research in human genome editing grows, many questions remain about ethical, legal and social implications of the technology. People who are seriously ill may ...
