Michael Bishop, microbiologist who shared Nobel Prize for work on cancer – obituary
Michael Bishop, who has died aged 90, shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold Varmus…
Genetic predisposition to coffee consumption and the association with the early risk of atherosclerosis
Data collection in SCAPIS This study utilized data from the Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study (SCAPIS), a national large-scale…
Gene from High Altitude Yak Protected and Repaired Myelin Sheath in Early MS Study
A wild yak in Tibet – credit, Alexandr Frolov, CC 4.0. via Wiki A special gene that helps…
Cocaine Addiction is a Biological Rewiring, Not a Choice
Summary: Relapse isn’t a failure of willpower—it’s a biological “rewiring” of the brain. A new study reveals how…
New ‘smart drug’ could beat jet lag in half the time: study
Woke up in a new time zone, but your brain stayed home? You’re not alone. Each year, more…
What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won’t end
Which animals came first? For more than a century, most evidence suggested that sponges, immobile filter-feeders that lack…
Some mental disorders may be caused by the same genetic differences, study finds
Many psychiatric disorders are more biologically related than previously understood, having more genetic similarities than differences, a new…
Wolf pup’s stomach yields DNA from one of world’s last surviving woolly rhinos
Woolly rhinos (Coelodonta antiquitatis) lived in Eurasia during the Pleistocene period (artist’s impression).Credit: Mark P. Witton/SPL Roughly 14,400…
why some people die from typically harmless germs
Michael Levin had just started working as a paediatric infectious-disease doctor in London when he received an urgent…
Eyes of the world’s longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, show little ageing
Swimming at a crawl with cloudy eyes and mottled skin, the Greenland shark looks like it’s seen better…
Estonia is linking a super genome database to patient records. Is it safe? – POLITICO
At a time when trust in institutions — including in health care — is being eroded by mis- and…
These rare Italian bears have evolved to be surprisingly chill
Friend shaped AND friend! Credit: Wikimedia Commons Bears are one of the big victims of deforestation. As more…