How confinement drives epigenetic changes
Perinuclear acetylated tubulin cage assembles in response to confinement. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09445-6 Cancer cells are notoriously…
Binge gaming in kids associated with adverse mental, social and academic outcomes
Binge gaming was associated with depression, anxiety, and poor sleep, with boys more likely to report binge gaming…
What exactly are you eating? The nutritional ‘dark matter’ in your food
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When scientists cracked the human genome in 2003—sequencing the entire genetic code of a…
AI helps it detect three heart conditions in 15 seconds
Credit: British Heart Foundation An AI-enabled stethoscope can help doctors pick up three heart conditions in just 15…
People’s brain structure linked to their genetic risk of major depression, study finds
Neuroimaging measures tested. Associations between MD PRS and brain structural measures were tested hierarchically in three tiers. Tier…
Why do some people age faster than others? Study identifies genes at play
Path diagram of the standardized results for our bifactor model of frailty. Credit: Nature Genetics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41588-025-02269-0…
Epigenomic landscapes of fat tissue cells reveal how they shape obesity risk
Schematic overview of the study design using snm3C-seq and snRNA-seq to profile cell-type-level DNA methylation, chromatin conformation and…
Surprising gene activity shields certain nerve cells from ALS damage
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain By analyzing millions of messenger RNA molecules (mRNA) during the course of ALS, researchers…
Is your health care provider really listening to you?
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When you visit a doctor, you expect them to listen. But in today’s fast-paced…
Scientists lay foundation for potential gene-editing therapy for late-onset Tay-Sachs disease
Credit: Journal of Clinical Investigation (2025). DOI: 10.1172/JCI183434 Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have successfully…
People with sensitive personalities more likely to experience mental health problems, analysis indicates
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research, led by Queen Mary University and published in the journal Clinical Psychological…
Scientists discover eight new schizophrenia genes
Schizophrenia GWAS locus plot for KLC1. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62429-y Researchers have discovered eight new genes…