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Until now, studies on the APOL1 gene have primarily focused on African and African American populationsCredit: New York, NY (December 27, 2018) -- In the...

Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - If quitting smoking is one of your New Year's resolutions, you might want to consider cutting back on...

Credit: S. Rupp, 2018 (CC BY 4.0) Animal diseases that infect humans are a major threat to human health, and diseases often spillover to humans...

Credit: Lucia Romani, 2018, CC BY 4.0 For years, the diagnosis of scabies has relied on time-consuming and intrusive full-body examinations. Now, researchers reporting in...

Parasitic protozoa called trypanosomes synthesize sugars using an unexpected metabolic pathway called gluconeogenesis, according to a study published December 27 in the open-access journal PLOS...

Credit: G Quinn, Swansea University Researchers analysing soil from Ireland long thought to have medicinal properties have discovered that it contains a previously unknown strain...

Credit: Amy Porter, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International The critically endangered Grauer's gorilla has recently lost genetic diversity and has experienced an increase in harmful...

Credit: Bruce Palmer/FSU Photography Services TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A team of Florida State University researchers has unlocked a decades-old mystery about how a critical cellular...

Credit: Wedell-Neergaard, Lehrskov, and Christensen, et al. / Cell Metabolism Some of you may have made a New Year's resolution to hit the gym to...

NIH-funded team shows that introducing genetic diversity improves translatability Incorporating genetic diversity into a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease resulted in greater overlap with the...

Cancers related to body weight twice as predominant in women than in men A new study looking at the share of cancers related to obesity...

We know a good meal can stimulate the release of the feel-good hormone dopamine, and now a study in humans from the Max Planck Institute...

Credit: Copyright UC Regents 2018 Continuous indoor exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke triggers changes in the heart's electrical activity, known as cardiac alternans, that can...

Researchers tested the effectiveness of a topical antibiotic in eliminating Staphylococcus aureus colonization in hospitalized infants BALTIMORE, MD, Dec. 26, 2018 -- A team of...

The article by Dr. Alireza Mohammadi et al. is published in Current Gene Therapy, Volume 18, Issue 4, 2018 Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder...