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The first draft of the human genome – our genetic blueprint – was published on 26 June, 2000. It had taken 10 years to ...
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BACKGROUND: Direct reprogramming of fibroblasts to cardiomyocytes is a potentially curative strategy for ischemic heart ...
Perhaps best known as a immune-system boost or antidote to scurvy, vitamin C has been found to rejuvenate aging skin by ...
Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2025-26 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s twelfth cohort. Launched in 2013, the ...
Xaira Therapeutics today announced the appointment of Jeff Jonker as President and Chief Operating Officer, reporting to CEO Marc Tessier-Lavigne. In this role, Jonker will work closely with ...
The 20,000 or so protein-making genes in the human genome, for example, give rise to millions of protein ... Taken together, proteins from these two sources generate an atlas of the body's ...
“On July 1, the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, ...
When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...
A new genomic study reveals how human populations adapted, survived, and diversified in the Himalayas, one of the most ...
Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...