Genetics

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How Cat Cancer Research Helps Fight Human Tumors Science

How Cat Cancer Research Helps Fight Human Tumors

Scientists mapped cancer genetics across nearly 500 cat tumors and found striking overlaps with human cancers, opening new paths for treatments that c...

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How Scientists Design Proteins From Scratch Science

How Scientists Design Proteins From Scratch

De novo protein design lets scientists build entirely new proteins that never existed in nature—unlocking potential breakthroughs in medicine, vaccine...

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How Dinosaurs Hatched Eggs—With Help From the Sun Science

How Dinosaurs Hatched Eggs—With Help From the Sun

Long before modern birds perfected the art of brooding, oviraptor dinosaurs used a remarkable combination of body heat and solar warmth to incubate th...

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How Gene Therapy Works—and Why It's Changing Medicine Science

How Gene Therapy Works—and Why It's Changing Medicine

Gene therapy targets the genetic root cause of disease by adding, silencing, or editing faulty DNA inside a patient's own cells. Here is how it works,...

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How Hair Follicles Work—and Why Growing Them Matters Science

How Hair Follicles Work—and Why Growing Them Matters

Hair follicles are tiny, highly sophisticated organs that drive every strand on your body. Scientists have now grown fully functional ones in a lab fo...

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What Is Graft-Versus-Host Disease and How Is It Treated? Health

What Is Graft-Versus-Host Disease and How Is It Treated?

Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a serious complication of bone marrow and stem cell transplants where donor immune cells attack the recipient's bo...

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MIT's Gut Protein Discovery May Transform IBD Treatment Science

MIT's Gut Protein Discovery May Transform IBD Treatment

MIT researchers have identified intelectin-2, a protein with a dual role in gut defense — it reinforces the intestinal mucus barrier and directly kill...

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Mirror Molecule Kills Cancer, Spares Healthy Cells Health

Mirror Molecule Kills Cancer, Spares Healthy Cells

Scientists have discovered that D-cysteine, a rare mirror-image amino acid, selectively starves cancer cells by targeting a specific transporter — lea...

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How Stem Cell Therapy for Parkinson's Works Health

How Stem Cell Therapy for Parkinson's Works

For the first time, a country has approved a stem cell treatment that replaces lost dopamine neurons in Parkinson's patients. Here's how the science w...

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Fatty Acids Kill Senescent Cells, Could Slow Aging Science

Fatty Acids Kill Senescent Cells, Could Slow Aging

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have identified conjugated polyunsaturated fatty acids that selectively destroy senescent cells via ferropt...

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How Genetics Determines How Long You Live Health

How Genetics Determines How Long You Live

New research shows genes account for roughly half of human lifespan variation—far more than scientists believed. Here is what the science of longevity...

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How Cancer Metastasis Works and Why It's So Deadly Health

How Cancer Metastasis Works and Why It's So Deadly

Metastasis — the spread of cancer from its original site to distant organs — accounts for more than 90% of cancer deaths. Here is how the process work...

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