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A scientific team including James Hutton Institute researchers has completed one of the largest genetic analysis ever done of any agricultural crop to find desirable traits in wheat’s extensive and unexplored diversity.

Clinical studies have found that bone mineral density in patients with anxiety or depression is lower than in other people.

Severely ill COVID-19 patients on ventilators are placed in a prone (face down) position because it’s easier for them to breathe and reduces mortality. But that life-saving position can also cause permanent nerve damage in these vulnerable patients, reports a new study.

Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine are learning more about how a person’s genes play a role in the possibility they’ll suffer from alcoholic cirrhosis with the discovery of a gene that could make the disease less likely.

Researchers at Yale have identified a possible treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare genetic disease for which there is currently no cure or treatment. The team discovered a compound that was able to target, and bind to, an enzyme that had previously been considered “undruggable.”

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have conducted a study that has determined the role that a critical protein, called GFI1, plays in the development of hair cells.

A team has demonstrated, for the first time, a method of biosynthesizing plasmonic gold nanoparticles within cancer cells, without the need for conventional bench-top lab methods.

Newly published research has reversed our understanding of an aspect of kidney tumor growth. Researchers have discovered that two key proteins (HIF-1α and HIF-2α) have opposite roles than what was previously believed.

An antibody test for the virus that causes COVID-19, developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, is more accurate and can handle a much larger number of donor samples at lower overall cost than standard antibody tests currently in use.

Researchers at the University of Turku have developed a test for ovarian cancer detection with a sensitivity 4.5 times higher than that of the conventional laboratory test. The simple lateral flow test is based on rapid detection of abnormal sugar structures directly from the blood sample.