Stephen Hawking, the world-famous theoretical physicist, was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at the age of 21. ALS is
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It’s long been known that opioid overdose deaths are caused by disrupted breathing, but the actual mechanism by which these
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According to their data, published in Scientific Reports, the number of people infected with COVID-19 on the day the state
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Alzheimer’s disease is the most common neurodegenerative disorder in which neurons gradually die off, leading to dementia. The exact mechanism
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Scientists called Wednesday for a key 14-day time limit for growing human embryos in the lab to be relaxed as
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Fast-spreading variants of the COVID-19-causing coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, carry mutations that enable the virus to escape some of the immune response
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New research has uncovered a surprising role for so-called “jumping” genes that are a source of genetic mutations responsible for
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Inflammation and metabolic disorders are deeply intertwined. For example, people with inflammatory conditions such as Crohn’s disease and psoriasis are
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Late last year the Network for Genomic Surveillance in South Africa (NGS-SA) led by the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing
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A major mystery in Alzheimer’s disease research is why some brain cells succumb to the creeping pathology of the disease
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