One Gene Mutation May Cause Zika's Devastating Birth Defects
Sixty years ago, a team of scientists went looking for yellow fever in the jungles that line the northwestern edge of Lake Victoria. What they found instead, in the blood of…
human biology
Once Invincible Superbug Squashed by ‘Superteam’ of Antibiotics
The golden age of antibiotics may be drawing to a close. The recent discovery of E. coli carrying mcr-1 and ndm-5 — genes that make the bacterium immune to last-resort…
Thousands of Genes Influence Most Diseases
In a provocative new perspective piece, Stanford researchers say that disease genes are spread uniformly across the genome, not clustered in specific molecular pathways, as has been thought. The gene…
Racism Aggravates Treatment-Resistant Asthma
Racial discrimination experienced by African-American children and young adults exacerbates a type of asthma known to be resistant to standard treatment, according to a study headed by researchers at UC…
Researchers Discover What May Be Earliest Stage of Alzheimer’s
Older adults with elevated levels of brain-clogging plaques — but otherwise normal cognition — experience faster mental decline suggestive of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study led by the…
Scientists 3-D Print Mouse Ovaries That Actually Make Babies
Not all girls grow up to be mothers. Sometimes they choose not to be, and sometimes circumstances take those choices away. A superfluity of cancers and genetic diseases can destroy…