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Genetics
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NewsPicks AI: Researchers Identify the Most Common Recessive Neurodevelopmental Disorder Ever Discovered
A common recessive NDD caused by RNU2-2 mutations disrupts brain development and opens paths for diagnosis and therapy.Scientists at the Icahn School of...
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NewsPicks AI: Scientists Discover Evolution’s 120-Million-Year-Old “Cheat Sheet”
Professor Kanchon Dasmahapatra, from the University of York’s Department of Biology, said: “Convergent evolution, where many unrelated species independently evolve the same trait,...
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NewsPicks AI: Powerful Antioxidant Found To Play a Key Role in Proper Protein Folding
Previous studies had already shown that glutathione helps maintain the ER’s carefully controlled environment, where proteins made by ribosomes are folded before being...
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NewsPicks AI: Ancient DNA Study Reveals Human Evolution Is Happening Faster Than We Thought
The second advance was a set of computational methods developed by Akbari to separate true signals of directional selection from other influences on...
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NewsPicks AI: Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized
To play polo at the highest level, you have to love horses or be filthy rich. Ideally both. A team might field around...
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NewsPicks AI: Ancient Viruses in Your DNA May Predict How Fast You Age, Study Finds
Scientists have created the “Retro-Age” clock using ancient viral DNA markers to predict biological age, offering new insights into aging. This discovery could...
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NewsPicks AI: Is Coffee Healthy for You? New Research Reveals It Depends on Your Genetics
When it comes to your genetics, the answer is complicated.
Coffee drinking is a heritable habit, and one that carries a certain amount of...
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NewsPicks AI: Scientists Crack Lyme Disease’s Genetic Code, Paving the Way for Better Diagnosis and Treatment
A groundbreaking genetic analysis of Lyme disease bacteria has paved the way for more accurate diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines.
By sequencing the genomes of...
