by Ramona Zwamborn, Jan Veldink and Paul J. Hop, The Conversation Environmental factors can affect genetic material through an epigenetic mechanism that involves methyl groups tagging DNA to turn it on or off. Credit: National Institutes of Health Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that affects about 1 in 50,000 people. Well-known people who suffered...
By Hidaya Aliouche, B.Sc. Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Chronic kidney disease is defined as damage of the renal parenchyma that results in chronic deterioration of kidney function and may result in progression to end-stage renal disease. It is a non-communicable disease that includes a range of physiological disorders which are attributed to abnormal renal...
by University of Helsinki Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An international consortium of leading migraine scientists identified more than 120 regions of the genome that are connected to risk of migraine. The groundbreaking study helps researchers better understand the biological basis of migraine and its subtypes and could speed up the search for new treatment of...
by Will Doss, Northwestern University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Among patients with no detectable coronary artery calcium, those who smoke, have diabetes or hypertension nonetheless have the highest risk of cardiovascular disease events, according to a study published in the journal Circulation. The findings demonstrate that even in patients with no coronary artery calcium, the traditional...
Zarrin Hossain January 05, 2022 Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is associated with a number of risk factors and now new research, published in Diabetes Care, suggests that increased levels of liver fat and a smaller pancreas volume may also add to a greater risk of developing T2D. Head of Research Communications at Diabetes UK, Dr. Lucy Chambers, commented that this breakthrough...
ESTONIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL A recent article published by researchers at the Institute of Genomics of the University of Tartu in the journal Human Reproduction described new links between polycystic ovary syndrome and genetics. Polycystic ovary syndrome is the most common endocrine disorder in women, characterised by irregular periods, high levels of androgen hormones, and/or enlarged ovaries with...
Many drug addicts take not only one substance but rather several. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine in Göttingen have investigated the role that genes and the environment play in the development of such multiple substance consumption or polytoxicomania. Their results show that, in addition to genetic factors, the accumulation of several...
