Genetics

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Daily Multivitamin May Slow Biological Aging, Trial Finds Health

Daily Multivitamin May Slow Biological Aging, Trial Finds

A major randomized trial — the COSMOS study — found that a daily multivitamin slowed biological aging by 2.7 to 5.1 months, as measured by epigenetic...

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How Archaeologists Decode Ancient Mass Graves Science

How Archaeologists Decode Ancient Mass Graves

When archaeologists uncover a prehistoric mass grave, a battery of modern forensic techniques—from isotopic analysis to ancient DNA—can reconstruct wh...

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What Are Cryptic Species and How Are They Found? Science

What Are Cryptic Species and How Are They Found?

Beneath the surface of Earth's known biodiversity hides a vast shadow catalogue of look-alike species, genetically distinct but visually indistinguish...

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What Is T Cell Exhaustion and Why It Limits Cancer Immunotherapy Health

What Is T Cell Exhaustion and Why It Limits Cancer Immunotherapy

T cell exhaustion is a state in which the immune system's most powerful cancer-fighting cells lose their killing ability. Understanding this process i...

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Why Dogs and Humans Share the Same Behavior Genes Science

Why Dogs and Humans Share the Same Behavior Genes

A landmark study of 1,300 golden retrievers found that the same genes driving canine anxiety, trainability, and aggression also shape human depression...

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Brain Protein DeltaFosB Found to Drive Cocaine Relapse Health

Brain Protein DeltaFosB Found to Drive Cocaine Relapse

Michigan State University scientists have identified DeltaFosB as the key molecular switch that rewires the brain's reward-memory circuit during chron...

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What Is Rett Syndrome and Why Is It Hard to Treat? Health

What Is Rett Syndrome and Why Is It Hard to Treat?

Rett syndrome is a rare neurological disorder caused by mutations in the MECP2 gene that almost exclusively affects girls, stripping away language, mo...

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What Is Dravet Syndrome and Why Is It Hard to Treat? Health

What Is Dravet Syndrome and Why Is It Hard to Treat?

Dravet syndrome is a rare, catastrophic form of epilepsy that begins in infancy, resists most standard medications, and is caused by a single faulty g...

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LRG1 Protein Unmasked as Root Cause of Diabetic Blindness Health

LRG1 Protein Unmasked as Root Cause of Diabetic Blindness

Scientists at UCL have identified the protein LRG1 as the earliest trigger of diabetic retinopathy, constricting retinal blood vessels before any visi...

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Plague Found in 4,000-Year-Old Sheep, Reshaping History Science

Plague Found in 4,000-Year-Old Sheep, Reshaping History

Scientists have discovered Yersinia pestis — the bacterium behind the Black Death — in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep from the Ural Mountains, th...

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How CAR T-Cell Therapy Fights Cancer Health

How CAR T-Cell Therapy Fights Cancer

CAR T-cell therapy reprograms a patient's own immune cells to hunt and destroy cancer. Here's how this revolutionary treatment works, which cancers it...

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What Is the Exposome and How It Shapes Your Health Science

What Is the Exposome and How It Shapes Your Health

The exposome captures every environmental exposure a person encounters from conception to death — and scientists now believe it explains far more abou...

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