Global warming and mass extinctions: What we can learn from plants from the last ice age
Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species — according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died […]
More barriers to genetic testing found for Black children than white children microbiologystudy
Credit: nappy from Pexels For children with signs of neurological conditions such as autism, epilepsy and global developmental delay, genetic
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West Africans have a high risk of kidney disease. New study confirms genetic cause microbiologystudy
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Kidney disease, leading to kidney failure, afflicts disproportionately more black people than white people. Thus, there
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Genetic mechanisms underlying Duchenne muscular dystrophy point to potential treatments microbiologystudy
Transcriptional adaptation drives UTRN upregulation upon DMD RNA decay. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08539-x Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a
Boosting autophagy in eggs may reduce DNA damage and reproductive complications microbiologystudy
Schematic model summarizing the impact of DNA double-strand breaks on oocyte meiosis I and the role of autophagy in DNA
Gene variant could protect against ultra-rare seizure disorder, fruit fly research finds microbiologystudy
Fruit flies for research purposes in a vial in lab. Credit: Charlie Ehlert / University of Utah Health One in
Scientists discover new gene-to-gene interaction that increases risk of alopecia microbiologystudy
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a new JAMA Dermatology study, scientists at King’s College London found that changes in two
How a former navy mechanic defied the genetic odds of inherited Alzheimer’s disease microbiologystudy
Schematic representation of the pedigree for the DIAN family carriers of the pathogenic mutation PSEN2 p.Asn141Ile. Credit: Nature Medicine (2025).
Colorado forests are releasing more carbon than they capture each year
Colorado’s forests store a massive amount of carbon, but dying trees — mostly due to insects and disease — have