by Karolinska Institutet A credit card-sized card with a magnetic strip containing all the important genetic information. Credit: The Lancet Patients can experience 30% fewer serious adverse reactions if their drugs are tailored to their genes, reports a study published in The Lancet. A European collaboration involving researchers from Karolinska Institutet suggests that a genetic analysis prior...
by National Institute of Standards and Technology Credit: CC0 Public Domain Alongside the newly updated human genome, which fills in long-standing gaps to fully spell out the more than 3 billion letters that compose our genetic code, a separate companion study has shown it can serve as an accurate template that improves our DNA sequencing...
by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Credit: CC0 Public Domain CD4+ T cells are important parts of the immune system and play a key role in defending the body against pathogens. As they possess a great variety of defense mechanisms against HIV in their resting state, they are infected only very rarely—but these few infected...
We used to think that genetics accounted for some 15-30 percent of life expectancy Genes do influence our risks of many health concerns and disease like cancer But a new study of Ancestry.com family tree data on 400 million people shows that lifespan is less inherited than we thought Scientists at the Genetics Society of America believe that lifespans that...
