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Study reveals APOE-ε4 allele increases the risk for Alzheimer's and cardiovascular disease

Previous research has revealed that the Apolipoprotein-ε4 (APOE-ε4) allele increases the risk for a variety of diseases in aging populations, specifically Alzheimer's and cardiovascular disease. And yet, despite the negative effects of this genetic variant, it remains prevalent in approximately 20% of the human population.

11 Aug 2023

Scientists develop "universal pan-mammalian clock" to accurately estimate age in mammals

Scientists at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Health led an international research team that published two articles detailing changes in DNA – changes that researchers found are shared by humans and other mammals throughout history and are associated with life span and numerous other traits.

10 Aug 2023

Gene linked to Alzheimer's may also have fertility benefits

Previous research has revealed that the Apolipoprotein-ε4 (APOE-ε4) allele increases the risk for a variety of diseases in aging populations, specifically Alzheimer's and cardiovascular disease.

9 Aug 2023

Memory and forgetting are key to social learning, study suggests

One of the most actively debated questions about human and non-human culture is this: under what circumstances might we expect culture, in particular the ability to learn from one another, to be favored by natural selection? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have developed a simulation model of the evolution of social learning.

8 Aug 2023

Unexpected link between pure mathematics and genetics discovered

An interdisciplinary team of mathematicians, engineers, physicists, and medical scientists have uncovered an unexpected link between pure mathematics and genetics, that reveals key insights into the structure of neutral mutations and the evolution of organisms.

8 Aug 2023

Researchers develop new method to find mutations in pediatric brain tumors

Researchers at Uppsala university have developed a new method to find mutations in brain tumors in children.

7 Aug 2023

Understanding variations in SARS-CoV-2 evolution and clearance by immunodeficiency status

Researchers describe the virological range of persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection in immunosuppressed individuals.

7 Aug 2023

Omicron variant resembles other respiratory viruses, posing challenges for syndromic surveillance

Researchers describe the symptom profiles of respiratory viral infections.

4 Aug 2023

Can genome editing transform ocular disease treatment?

The discovery and development of gene-editing technologies and their applications in managing ocular diseases.

3 Aug 2023

Cancer's silent progression: research delves into evolutionary clues in breast cancer

Researchers performed phylogenetic analyses to trace the evolution of breast cancer and precursor lesions.

2 Aug 2023

Genomic sequencing: A key tool for responding to pandemics

Many of the answers for effectively responding to a pathogen lie in its genome.

1 Aug 2023

SARS-CoV-2 spike pseudovirion infection in ARPE-19 cells is a dynamin-dependent process that is primarily mediated by LDLR

Researchers reported on lentiviral pseudovirions pseudotyped with SARS-CoV-2.

1 Aug 2023

New device can detect COVID-19 in less than a minute

Benjamin Sumlin, PhD, a senior scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, blows into a device designed by researchers at the university. The device — a breath test that uses a biosensor — could become a tool for use in doctors' offices to quickly diagnose people infected with the virus that causes COVID-19.

1 Aug 2023

Sperm packaging proteins may hold key to male infertility

Sperm play a critical role in the creation of new life, delivering essentially half of the genetic material required.

31 Jul 2023

Ancient Brazilian skeleton discovered to be descendant of First Americans

An article to be published on July 31 in Nature Ecology & Evolution reveals that Luzio, the oldest human skeleton found in São Paulo state (Brazil), was a descendant of the ancestral population that settled the Americas at least 16,000 years ago and gave rise to all present-day Indigenous peoples, such as the Tupi.

31 Jul 2023

Study offers new insight into how antimicrobial resistance emerges in patients with bacterial infections

A research study led by the University of Oxford provides a transformational new insight into how antimicrobial resistance (AMR) emerges in patients with bacterial infections.

31 Jul 2023

A new portal to ef-FIT-ciency: Introducing The Alpha Portal (TAP) by Alpha Laboratories

The Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) has revolutionised the colorectal cancer referral pathway with its quick and user-friendly nature, making it an easily integrated test for efficient patient triaging.

From Alpha Laboratories 31 Jul 2023

Mutational accessibility: A key driver of viral evolution

The influenza (flu) virus is constantly undergoing a process of evolution and adaptation through acquiring new mutations.

29 Jul 2023

Study unravels how mitochondria call for help when under stress

Originally, the powerhouses of higher cells, the mitochondria, were independent organisms. Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt have investigated to what extent their metabolism has blended with that of their host cells in the course of evolution, using the example of a mitochondrial stress response.

28 Jul 2023

Human-swine influenza A transmission and evolution of variants

A new study of the strain of influenza A responsible for the 2009 H1N1 pandemic - pdm09 - shows that the virus has passed from humans to swine about 370 times since 2009, and subsequent circulation in swine has resulted in the evolution of pdm09 variants that then jumped from swine to humans.

27 Jul 2023

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Study reveals APOE-ε4 allele increases the risk for Alzheimer's and cardiovascular disease

Scientists develop "universal pan-mammalian clock" to accurately estimate age in mammals

Gene linked to Alzheimer's may also have fertility benefits

Memory and forgetting are key to social learning, study suggests

Unexpected link between pure mathematics and genetics discovered

Researchers develop new method to find mutations in pediatric brain tumors

Understanding variations in SARS-CoV-2 evolution and clearance by immunodeficiency status

Omicron variant resembles other respiratory viruses, posing challenges for syndromic surveillance

Can genome editing transform ocular disease treatment?

Cancer's silent progression: research delves into evolutionary clues in breast cancer

Genomic sequencing: A key tool for responding to pandemics

SARS-CoV-2 spike pseudovirion infection in ARPE-19 cells is a dynamin-dependent process that is primarily mediated by LDLR

New device can detect COVID-19 in less than a minute

Sperm packaging proteins may hold key to male infertility

Ancient Brazilian skeleton discovered to be descendant of First Americans

Study offers new insight into how antimicrobial resistance emerges in patients with bacterial infections

A new portal to ef-FIT-ciency: Introducing The Alpha Portal (TAP) by Alpha Laboratories

Mutational accessibility: A key driver of viral evolution

Study unravels how mitochondria call for help when under stress

Human-swine influenza A transmission and evolution of variants

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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