Often hidden, this Dutch gene mutation is linked to heart problems

The Michigan State University College of Human Medicine is working to raise awareness of an often hidden gene mutation that’s linked to Dutch ancestry. The PLN gene acts as a sort of “dimmer switch” ...
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Study tallies 50,000+ seal, sea lion deaths from H5N1 in S America

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is estimated to have killed at least about 52,000 seals and sea lions across South America, based on published scientific tallies of the 2023 outbreak and its ...
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AI-guided CRISPR tool aims to make DNA edits more precise and safer

Stanford Medicine researchers have built CRISPR-GPT, a large language model designed to automate the full arc of gene-editing ...
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Novartis agrees to acquire a pan-mutant-selective PI3Kα inhibitor, strengthening its breast cancer pipeline

Proposed acquisition supports the Novartis oncology strategy in hormone receptor positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor two-negative (HR+/HER2-) breast cancer ; The lead ...

Meat, blood, milk, and almost no water: Mutation that helped Kenyan tribe survive for centuries

Can humans live on almost no water when our bodies are largely made up of water? A Kenyan community has been doing just that for thousands of years. Scientists now know why their bodies allow them to ...