Genetics

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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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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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