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Researchers found evidence that poverty can become embedded across wide swaths of the genome. They discovered that lower socioeconomic status is associated with levels of DNA methylation (DNAm) -- a key epigenetic mark that has the potential to shape gene expression -- at more than 2,500 sites, across more than 1,500 genes.

A novel fabrication method has been used to create dyed threads that change color when they detect a variety of gases. Woven into clothing, smart, gas-detecting threads could provide a reusable, washable, and affordable safety asset in medical, workplace, military and rescue environments.

Increasing air temperatures and precipitation are drivers of major changes in various components of the Arctic system, observations that provide a foundation for a more integrated understanding of the Earth’s biogeophysical systems.

A comprehensive catalogue of the bacteria and fungi found on surfaces inside the International Space Station (ISS) has been compiled.

Objective assessments of physical fitness are considered strong predictors of health status; however, most current tools, such as treadmill tests, are too expensive and time-consuming to use during routine exams. This is the first known study to report an association between pushup capacity and subsequent cardiovascular disease outcomes.

Scientists have linked a common food preservative to an altered immune response that possibly hinders flu vaccines.

Proteins with disordered regions may also be sticky, and clump together inside and between cells, and are directly implicated in a number of neurodegenerative diseases. Thus, being able to identify disordered regions in proteins is highly important. Researchers have generated and validated a representative experimental benchmarking set of site-specific and continuous disorders, using deposited NMR chemical shift data for more than a hundred selected proteins.

A potential new immune-based therapy to treat precancers in the cervix completely eliminated both the lesion and the underlying HPV infection in a third of women enrolled in a clinical trial.

Efforts to curtail the flow of cocaine into the United States from South America have made drug trafficking operations more widespread and harder to eradicate, according to new research published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

New research has indicated that people with autism have an altered sense of self, which may explain some of the differences shown in social functioning. It is the first time that responses to the self-altering ‘full body illusion’, which simulates an out of body experience, have been measured in people with autism.