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Scientists link certain gut bacteria to lower heart disease risk

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Scientists link certain gut bacteria to lower heart disease risk By Allessandra DiCorato April 2, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Scientists link certain gut bacteria to lower heart disease risk Study finds several species of cholesterol-metabolizing bacteria in people with lower cholesterol levels.

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New patient-partnered research project will study heart disease and diabetes risk in South Asian populations

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By Makenzie Kohler October 23, 2023 People of South Asian ancestry around the world have more than double the risk of developing cardiometabolic diseases like diabetes, heart attack, and stroke compared to other populations. Participants will answer questions about their background, lifestyle, and medical history.

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Eclectic Genomics: Cat Flu, Dolphin Adaptation to Climate Change, Predicting Cancer, and Diagnosing Rare Disease

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Genomics applies to all species, revealing evolution in action, because we all use the same genetic code – that is, the correspondence between DNA sequences and the amino acid sequences of proteins. Cats and Bird Flu Comparing DNA sequences is a little like linguistic research that connects languages.

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Researchers identify source of a brain cancer’s deadly transformation

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Bernstein is also chair of the Department of Cancer Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a professor in cell biology and pathology at Harvard Medical School, and holds the Richard and Nancy Lubin Family Chair. In IDH-driven gliomas, the mutated IDH enzyme fosters the addition of methyl groups to the cells’ DNA.

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More diverse datasets lead to better genetic risk prediction for heart disease

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The accuracy of these scores has improved for some diseases and groups of people, but they continue to fall short for those of non-European ancestry, mainly because the genetic datasets used to calculate these scores have largely come from people of European ancestry.

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To help his daughter living with an ultra-rare disorder, this dad brought together a squad of genetic detectives

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They knew that discovering the genetic cause of her disorder would help them find other people like her, help get the condition formally recognized as a new disease, and help them better advocate for research into new treatments. This is the first human disease caused by loss of one copy of a lncRNA gene.

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Shervin Tabrizi

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His work focuses on developing novel technologies to improve the performance of liquid biopsies for cancer detection, using approaches in protein engineering to create agents that can improve the recovery of cell-free DNA from the body. Tabrizi earned his M.D. Tabrizi earned his M.D.