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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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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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Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, has transformed HIV prevention. A new twice-yearly injectable drug called lenacapavir works by targeting the virus'...
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Scientists have identified a new marine fungus, Algophthora mediterranea, that parasitizes and destroys toxic algae responsible for harmful coastal bl...
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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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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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Once overlooked, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) now affects roughly one in three adults worldwide. Here's how fat si...
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Diabetic retinopathy is the world's leading cause of preventable blindness in working-age adults. Here's how high blood sugar silently destroys the ey...
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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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Fatty liver disease — now officially called MASLD — affects nearly 40% of the global population, yet most people don't know they have it. Here's how i...
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Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in working-age adults worldwide. Here is how high blood sugar silently destroys the eye's light...
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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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