Medscape

'Core' Genes for Type 1 Diabetes Uncovered

Researchers said their discovery of nine 'core' genes central to the development of type 1 diabetes could unlock new immune system pathways for targeting by immunotherapies. A team from the ...
News-Medical.Net

Study identifies epigenetic patterns affecting insulin and glucagon production in type 2 diabetes

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have carried out the most detailed mapping to date of the epigenome in the cells ...
techtimes

Genprex's Diabetes Gene Therapy Program: A Major Step Forward in the Fight Against Type 1 Diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is a chronic autoimmune disease affecting millions of people globally, characterized by the destruction of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. Patients with Type 1 ...

The new human blood type that only 3 people on Earth have—and the hunt for the 4th

Doctors stumbled upon a type rarer than “golden blood”—and suspect more patients carry the bizarre genetic anomaly.
Smithsonian Magazine

Humans Are Still Evolving. Natural Selection Has Favored Genes Linked to Red Hair and Less Male-Pattern Baldness, a Study Suggests

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...
Phys.org

'Invisible' cell types and gene expression revealed with sequencing data analysis improvement

Missing genes and sequencing read registration in single-cell RNA-seq experiments. Credit: Nature Methods (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41592-023-02003-w In 2018, researchers in the Caltech laboratory of ...