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A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene "silencer" that resides in junk DNA is directly sparing people from a devastating ...

The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer's disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of the puzzle.

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An international team of geneticists, public health specialists and environmental scientists from Greenland, Denmark and ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene ...

WashU Medicine-led trial evaluating investigational drug from Eli Lilly and Company aims to stop disease before symptoms arise Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have ...

Researchers find a master epigenetic switch that activates silenced genes to compensate for their missing counterparts in a ...

Lainie Jones has Li-Fraumeni syndrome, which makes her predisposed to having cancer. She's undergoing treatment for ...

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