Experts call for global genetic warning system to combat the next pandemic and antimicrobial resistance

The COVID-19 pandemic turned the world upside down. In fighting it, one of our most important weapons was genomic surveillance, based on whole genome sequencing, which collects all the genetic data of ... Read More

Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

That pattern continues to this day, with labs closed, collaborations shattered, foreign scientists forced out and Chinese researchers barred from leaving the country. Read More

Identifying proteins causally related to COVID-19, healthspan and lifespan

A new research paper titled "Using genetics and proteomics data to identify proteins causally related to COVID-19, healthspan and lifespan: a Mendelian randomization study" has been published in Aging ... Read More

New technology uncovers mechanism affecting generation of new COVID variants

The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID has the unsettling ability of often generating variants of itself. Other viruses also mutate, but as ... Read More

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New Study Quantifies Health Impacts from Oil and Gas Flaring in U.S. Mar. 12, 2024 — A new study finds that pollution from oil and gas venting and flaring results in $7.4 billion in health ... Read More

New genetic analysis tool tracks risks tied to CRISPR edits

Now scientists are applying the technology’s immense potential to human health and disease, targeting new ... use ICP analysis to determine whether that individual had inherited the genetic ... Read More

Genetic analysis reveals true origin of chronic kidney disease in undiagnosed patients

Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) researchers discover that known genetic variants might account for a large portion of chronic kidney diseases of unclear origin Tokyo, Japan – Chronic ... Read More

Revisionist COVID-19 history endangers public health | Opinion

But scientifically proven public health approaches to combatting this pandemic made a significant impact. We must not discount this lesson and distort the history of COVID-19, imperfect though it ... Read More

Genetic analysis reveals hidden causes of chronic kidney disease in adults

They then filtered out patients who had an apparent cause for their CKD, leaving 90 adults with CKD of unknown origin who had ... filed a patent for a new genetic analysis system for Japanese ... Read More

SFU RESEARCHERS FIND NEW CLUES TO CONTROLLING HIV

Now, an international team of researchers is harnessing the immune system to reveal new clues that may help in efforts to produce an HIV vaccine. SFU professor Mark Brockman and co-authors from the ... Read More

Pregnancy may accelerate aging in women, study finds

Women who had been pregnant appeared to be biologically older than women who had never carried a child, the genetic analysis ... decades ago, a new study finds. Health News // 5 hours ago Atrial ... Read More

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Lyn Castellano receives infusions of Eisai and Biogen's Alzheimer's drug Leqembi, alongside her service dog Jazmin at the Missouri Baptist Medical Center Infusion Center in St. Louis, Missouri, U ... Read More