New therapy targets cause of adult-onset muscular dystrophy: Animal study shows no off-target effects of RNA-based therapy 04/01/2019 Health News, People diagnosed with myotonic dystrophy type 1 have difficulty unclenching muscles due to a genetic...
How mosquitoes smell human sweat (and new ways to stop them) 03/29/2019 Health News, Female mosquitoes are known to rely on an array of sensory information to find people...
Electron accelerators reveal the radical secrets of antioxidants 03/19/2019 Health News, In a groundbreaking series of experiments, an Osaka University researcher has demonstrated an exciting new...
Scientists discover genes for responsibility are inherited 02/26/2019 Health News, It's not just your mother's eyes you inherited: Scientists discover genes for responsibility and conscientiousness...
Nicotine while pregnant alters genes, study suggests: Findings may point to potential cure for addiction 02/07/2019 Health News, The Akay Lab biomedical research team at the University of Houston is reporting in the...
Gene therapy promotes nerve regeneration 01/19/2019 Health News, Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) and the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC)...
Study: ‘Post-normal’ science requires unorthodox communication strategies 01/16/2019 Health News, Proposals to fight malaria by "driving" genes that slow its spread through mosquitoes is a...
Advancing the description of ‘mysterious’ water to improve drug design 12/17/2018 Health News, Interactions with water dominate how drug molecules bind to targets, but it's tricky to model...
New techniques better determine how ancient viral DNA influences human genes 12/14/2018 Health News, New laboratory techniques can identify which of our genes are influenced by DNA snippets that...
Not in the DNA: Epigenetics discovered in single-celled archaea: Discovery could accelerate study of epigenetics in humans, researchers say 12/03/2018 Health News, University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers have found revolutionary evidence that an evolutionary phenomenon at work in...