The body’s most mysterious organ may play a key role in longevity and cancer
For decades, a mysterious, two-lobed organ nestled behind the breastbone has been overlooked by most physicians, thought to…
Genetic association and machine learning improve the prediction of type 1 diabetes risk
Ethics statement The use of human genetic data in this study was approved by the University of California,…
Insights into human adaptation from ancient DNA
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AI framework for multidisease detection via retinal imaging
Study population For the model training, we used CFPs from the UKB and three hospital-based centers in China…
Telomere-to-telomere genome assemblies and population resequencing of diploid and allotetraploid peanut varieties
Assembly and annotation of six representative peanut genomes To determine the genome structure and genetic diversity of A.…
Who owns my health data?
In Europe, nations are feeling pressure to keep the continent competitive in AI while staying inside strict privacy…
After a year of turmoil, cancer researchers see promising signs for mRNA vaccines :: WRAL.com
Editor’s note: This story was reported in collaboration with the Global Health Reporting Center with support from the…
Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of severe pregnancy nausea and vomiting
Fejzo, M. S. et al. Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy and hyperemesis gravidarum. Nat. Rev. Dis. Primers 5,…
Postmitotic transcription and 3D regulation show locus-specific and differentiation-specific sensitivity to cohesin depletion
Furlong, E. E. M. & Levine, M. Developmental enhancers and chromosome topology. Science 361, 1341–1345 (2018). Article CAS …
De novo formation of cis-regulatory contacts in the absence of NIPBL-driven chromatin loop extrusion
Vermunt, M. W., Zhang, D. & Blobel, G. A. The interdependence of gene-regulatory elements and the 3D genome.…
After former Miss North Carolina’s death, doctor says young cancer diagnoses becoming more common :: WRAL.com
Carrie Everett, who was crowned Miss North Carolina in 2024, died of an uncommon form of stomach cancer on…
Biallelic variants in RNU2-2 cause the most prevalent known recessive neurodevelopmental disorder
Genetic association analysis We identified the recessive form of RNU2-2 syndrome through a joint statistical analysis of the…