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The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.

In this exciting collaboration, students from over 60 schools in the UK will work with scientists at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Reanalysis of data from a previous study on the familial risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) estimates the heritability to be 83 percent, suggesting that genetic factors may explain most of the risk for ASD.

The new form of treatment is based on the protein molecule named CD40, which destroys cancerous tumours without harming healthy cell tissue.

The gene is involved in the translation of proteins from RNA and in the proliferation and migration of neurons in the brain.

Stem cells can be triggered to change into heart muscle cells by a new method involving synthetic molecules.

Intracoronary delivery of the gene vector was safe and improved heart function in a large animal model.

Using a computational technique that accounts for how genes interact, scientists revealed genes that may be related to autism spectrum disorder, many of which are also implicated in cancer.

Researchers have used genome editing technology to reveal the role of a key gene in human embryos in the first few days of development.

Scientists are a step closer to resolving a related head-scratcher, how do these frogs keep from poisoning themselves?