Mutations in two gene pairs point to a promising drug target in 5% of adult cancers
Scientists from the Cancer Dependency Map (DepMap) at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Columbia University have ...
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Increasing risk of human bird flu infection, warns EU health body
The risk that avian influenza viruses will adapt better to humans is increasing. Rapid detection of genetic changes in these ...
Gene pools are getting dangerously shallow for many species. Researchers find five ways to help
Before species go extinct, their populations often shrink and become isolated. Healthy populations tend to have a large gene ...
Quanta Magazine8h
The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA
By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...
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Bird flu warning as report finds 34 genetic mutations that could trigger future pandemic
Bird flu viruses pose an increasing threat, with the potential to adapt to humans and trigger future pandemics, European disease experts warned yesterday. Thirty-four genetic mutations that might ...
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EU agencies track avian influenza variants on potential threat to humans
Two European regulators said on Wednesday they were tracking variants of the avian influenza virus due to the threat of the pathogen adapting to spread between humans and triggering future pandemics, ...
Prime Medicine: Gene Editing Company, Risky Investment
Prime Medicine, Inc. faces risks in the gene editing sector despite positive developments, caution advised for retail investors. Click for my PRME stock update.
New AI model predicts gene expression across human cell types
A team of investigators from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Google, and Columbia University have created an artificial intelligence model that can predict which ...
A North Carolina wildlife crossing will save people. Can it save the last wild red wolves too?
For decades, conservationists have pushed for changes to U.S. 64, a busy two-lane highway to the popular Outer Banks that ...
Harvard Medical School16h
Kidney Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Early Trial
In a small clinical trial of nine patients with stage III and IV kidney cancer, a personalized anti-tumor vaccine generated ...
Turlock Journal4d
Turlock Christian student gets long-awaited kidney transplant
Nearly eight months after suffering a seizure caused by undetected kidney failure, 13-year-old Deziree Del Toro and her ...
Nature3d
Mechanisms of change in gene copy number
The locus-specific mutation frequencies for copy number variation ... between individual humans and are an underlying factor in human evolution and in many diseases, including mental illness ...