Does the motion of DNA influence its activity?

How does our DNA store the massive amount of information needed to build a human being? And what happens when it's stored incorrectly? Jesse Dixon, MD, Ph.D., has spent years studying the way this ...

Vertex: The Quiet Biotech Compounder I'd Happily Hold Through Any Market Crash

But this biotech player has proven its ability over time to develop successful drugs, generate earnings growth, and continue ...
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Skidaway Island man sees early benefit in leukemia prevention trial

Skidaway Island resident Bruce Koehler is among early participants seeing clinical blood‑count improvements in a nationwide prevention study ...
Chicago Tribune

Tanning bed users have nearly twice as much damage to skin cells, Northwestern study finds

Though tanning may be far from the minds of chilly Illinois residents at the moment, a new study out of Northwestern Medicine is highlighting the risks of tanning beds, and showing how they can lead ...
Wired

For the First Time, Mutations in a Single Gene Have Been Linked to Mental Illness

Research links variations in the gene GRIN2A to a higher risk of developing schizophrenia and other forms of mental illness. The GRIN2A gene regulates communication between neurons by producing the ...
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What Happens If DNA Mutation Stops

What would happen to our species? Three migrants fall from border wall in California: Report 'National Lampoon' star Beverly D'Angelo admits she likely gave up 'bigger career' after becoming mom at 49 ...
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A Mitochondrial DNA Mutation that Alters Immunity

Mitochondria are well known as the powerhouses of the cell because of their energy generating capabilities. These little organelles are very special, because they also carry their own tiny little ...
IGN

Crash Course in Telemetry Walkthrough

Crash Course in Telemetry is an Order of the Ascendant faction quest in The Outer Worlds 2. This is the second job for the Order of the Ascendant, and this time they need you to head back to Paradise ...
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Scientists Race to Deliver Custom Gene Therapies for Incurable Diseases in Weeks—Not Years

Gene editors usually take years to test and perfect. KJ Muldoon’s treatment took only six months. Now his doctors want to go even faster. Before the age of one, KJ Muldoon had already made medical ...
News Medical

Study finds increased rates of DNA mutations in mice pups conceived with IVF

Mice pups conceived with in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the lab have slightly increased rates of DNA errors, or mutations, compared to pups conceived naturally, a new study on artificial reproductive ...
The New York Times

The DNA Helix Changed How We Thought About Ourselves

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...