Credit: STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Getty Images Breast cancer in young women is genetically different from that in older women, according to database analysis conducted by researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys. Breast cancer in men, their work suggests, may also be genetically distinctive. Cell cycle dysregulation, a prerequisite for cancer formation, may underpin these … Read more
July 5, 2023, ARCHE NOAH today released a statement in response to the European Commission’s proposals for the revision of the legislation on the marketing of seeds and the deregulation of “new genomic techniques”. Seeds4Allendorsed the declaration, which raised the alarm about the threat these proposals pose to the future of genetic diversity in Europe … Read more
Charles Sanders, PhD by Herschel Pollard Vanderbilt University scientists Charles Sanders, PhD, and Roy Zent, MD, PhD, received a $1.2 million award from the WM Keck Foundation for their groundbreaking project, Genetic Intolerance Patterns as a Treasure Map to Genes that Define Us as Human. This groundbreaking project led by Professors Sanders and Zent underscores … Read more
In a recent study published in Nutrition, metabolism and cardiovascular diseases Journal, the researchers used ambulatory blood pressure monitoring to evaluate the relationship between the degree of processed foods consumed and blood pressure variability. Their findings indicate that a high proportion of processed foods in the diet correlates positively with greater blood pressure variability and … Read more
Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine are using evolutionary genomics to understand human disease. They focus on genes that are unchanged and highly constrained through mammalian evolution. This new perspective makes it possible to trace psychiatric and neurological disorders to alterations in these genes. This could provide insights into various mental health conditions and … Read more
A ring finger stuck in a bent position as seen in Dupuytrens disease, colloquially known as Viking disease. Credit: Hugo Zeberg/Molecular Biology and Evolution Dupuytrens disease, a hand disorder common among Northern Europeans, has genetic ties to Neanderthals, according to a study in Molecular Biology and Evolution. Three of the 61 genetic risk variants for … Read more
