Genetics

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How Animal Cloning Works—and Why It Has Limits Science

How Animal Cloning Works—and Why It Has Limits

Somatic cell nuclear transfer lets scientists copy mammals from a single body cell, but new research shows cloning hits a genetic dead end. Here is ho...

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How Liquid Biopsies Detect Cancer From a Blood Draw Health

How Liquid Biopsies Detect Cancer From a Blood Draw

Liquid biopsies analyze tiny fragments of tumor DNA circulating in the bloodstream, offering a minimally invasive way to detect cancer, guide treatmen...

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Probiotic Bacteria Engineered to Hunt and Kill Tumors Health

Probiotic Bacteria Engineered to Hunt and Kill Tumors

Scientists are programming gut-friendly bacteria to infiltrate tumors and produce cancer-fighting drugs on-site, showing dramatic results in mice and...

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What Are Nucleobases and How Do They Form in Space? Science

What Are Nucleobases and How Do They Form in Space?

Nucleobases are the five molecular 'letters' that encode all life on Earth. Scientists have now found all five in pristine asteroid samples, reshaping...

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How Men Lose the Y Chromosome With Age—and Why Science

How Men Lose the Y Chromosome With Age—and Why

As men age, their blood cells increasingly shed the Y chromosome in a process called mosaic loss of Y (mLOY), which scientists now link to heart disea...

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How Fetal Surgery Works—and Why It Matters Health

How Fetal Surgery Works—and Why It Matters

Fetal surgery allows doctors to operate on unborn babies inside the womb, treating life-threatening conditions like spina bifida months before birth....

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How Engineered Bacteria Fight Cancer From Inside Tumors Science

How Engineered Bacteria Fight Cancer From Inside Tumors

Scientists are programming harmless bacteria to infiltrate tumors and produce anti-cancer drugs on site. Here's how bacterial cancer therapy works, wh...

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Metastasis is Not Random: Scientists Discover Genetic Code for Cancer Spread Science

Metastasis is Not Random: Scientists Discover Genetic Code for Cancer Spread

Researchers at the University of Geneva have identified gene patterns that govern the spread of cancer and developed an AI tool, MangroveGS, that pred...

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How PCSK9 Inhibitors Lower Cholesterol—and Why Health

How PCSK9 Inhibitors Lower Cholesterol—and Why

PCSK9 inhibitors represent a powerful class of cholesterol-lowering drugs that work by preserving the liver's ability to clear LDL from the bloodstrea...

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Breakthrough in Brain Cancer: Virus Makes Glioblastoma Vulnerable Science

Breakthrough in Brain Cancer: Virus Makes Glioblastoma Vulnerable

American researchers have used a modified herpes virus to deliver immune cells deep into glioblastoma tumors, significantly improving survival rates f...

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How a Mouth Bacterium Fuels Cancer Growth Science

How a Mouth Bacterium Fuels Cancer Growth

Fusobacterium nucleatum, a common oral bacterium linked to gum disease, can travel through the bloodstream to fuel tumor growth in the colon, breast,...

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What Is TDP-43 and How It Links ALS and Dementia Science

What Is TDP-43 and How It Links ALS and Dementia

TDP-43 is a protein found in nearly every human cell. When it misfolds and clumps, it drives ALS, frontotemporal dementia, and possibly cancer — makin...

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