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Scientists Devise a Method to Edit Mitochondrial DNA. Here’s How It Works and Why It Matters
There’s a mini second genome inside your cells, but no one could figure out how to…
This chart shows how far we’ve come in fighting cancer
For much of the 20th century, cancer was an unspeakable diagnosis. But the equation has shifted,…
MIT machine learning models find gaps in coverage by Moderna, Pfizer, other Warp Speed COVID-19 vaccines | ZDNet
Vaccine makers need to take into account genetic diversity explicitly in clinical trials or risk missing…
Tennessee baby breaks world record after being born from 27-year-old frozen embryo – Flipboard
A Tennessee baby born from an embryo frozen for 27 years has set a new known…
New CRISPR Cancer Treatment Is Very Promising
I first wrote about CRISPR here in 2017. We are used to medical hyperbole and hype…
Study of 111 ‘exceptional’ cancer patients yields clues to better drug treatments
Mutations and other changes in tumors appear to explain rare success stories Read more at Science…
Chromosomes Don’t Look The Way You Think. We Now Have a 3D Image of The Real Thing
If you’ve ever studied any chemistry or biology, there’s a very good chance you’ve come across…
Pre-symptomatic detection of COVID-19 from smartwatch data
Analysis of physiological and activity data from consumer smartwatches enables real-time detection, often before symptom onset,…
As Obesity Soars, a Mayo Clinic DNA Study May Have Cracked The Cause
Called phenotyping, this bespoke mapping of each human on a subcellular level has allowed Acosta to…
Houston hospital creates new breakthrough breast cancer risk tool
In the medical field, billions of dollars are wasted each year — about $935 billion, but…
The ambitious plan to save more than nine in 10 cancer patients from death
More than 90 per cent of Australians could survive their cancer diagnosis within a decade under…
Viruses have been shown to produce their own energy for the first time
Viruses are supposed to be utterly reliant on the cells they infect but it appears a…
Rapidly declining body temperature in a tropical human population
Normal human body temperature (BT) has long been considered to be 37.0°C. Yet, BTs have declined…
Covid: Antibodies ‘fall rapidly after infection’
This is likely to mean immunity levels decline and raises the risk of reinfection, researchers say.…
Cause of Alzheimer’s disease traced to mutation in common enzyme
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered a new mechanism by which clumps of tau protein…
Scientists discover new organ in the throat
A secret set of salivary glands has been hiding behind the nose. Read more at livescience.com…
More people have died from Covid-19 than in the past 5 flu seasons combined
Coronavirus isn’t just deadlier than the flu — it’s also more contagious. These illustrations show why.…
Flurry of coronavirus reinfections leaves scientists puzzled
Though far from common, some patients developed worse symptoms the second time they became infected with…
The coronavirus has now killed more than 1 million people and upended the global economy in less than nine months
The coronavirus pandemic has reach its most grisly milestone to date: 1 million people are dead.…