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About That ‘Breakthrough’ Blood Test For Alzheimer’s Disease
In a complex disease like Alzheimer’s, we need to proceed with caution when it comes to interpreting the results of a blood test.
How Epigenetics Could Turn Things Around For Alzheimer’s Disease
By comparing the genes that are activated in healthy people versus those with Alzheimer’s, researchers hope to understand how healthy aging changes the brain — and how certain changes open the door to disease.
2020 Nature Research Award: Iranian Computational Geneticist Traces The History Of Human Evolution
Samira Asgari, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, wins this year’s Nature Research Award for Inspiring & Innovating Science for her work on human genetic diversity.
There’s A New Flu Vaccine Every Year. Why Can’t A Coronavirus Vaccine Be Ready That Fast?
The coronavirus is completely different from the influenza virus, and developing a vaccine requires substantial understanding of how the virus behaves.
Citizen Scientists Make History In The Quest To Cure Coronavirus
Gamers and other volunteers lent their processing power to the world’s largest supercomputing project, to take down coronavirus
‘Molecular Signature’ In Blood May Indicate Coronavirus Disease Severity
Physicians in New York teamed up with data scientists at the University of Wisconsin to analyze blood samples from over 100 Covid-19 patients.
To Stop The Next Pandemic, Scientists Want To Vaccinate Animals With Viruses
To deliver a vaccine to hundreds of thousands of wild animals, scientists are harnessing the infectious power of viruses to design transmissible vaccines.
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