“Our study shows how the most important environmental and genetic risk factors can contribute to MS and trigger an autoimmune ...
Factinate on MSN
There’s a gene in our DNA that seems to come from an infection by an ancient virus—but no one knows its true purpose
You're walking around right now carrying the genetic fingerprints of infections that happened millions of years ago. Deep ...
Morning Overview on MSN
Ancient DNA exposes virus that hacked its way into human genes
Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that ...
Researchers from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have unlocked the most detailed genetic blueprint yet of a major ...
An estimated 3 million Americans have an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. But ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN
Three Stunning Ways Biologists Aim to Edit Animal and Plant Genes to Fight Diseases and Extinction
The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...
Live Science on MSN
These genes were thought to lead to blindness 100% of the time. They don't.
New research finds that retinal diseases thought to map one-to-one to genetic mutations are more complicated than that.
Many genetic variants linked to inherited eye disorders rarely lead to disease, meaning up to 2% of people could carry these variants without ever developing vision problems, according to a new s tudy ...
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