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Human health and disease
Human health and disease refers to understanding what contributes to human health (the staste of mental, social, and physical being) and what factors may deter health (such as disease, infection, etc.)
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SEP 24, 2020Health & Medicine
By this point in the year, you’ve either heard or uttered the phrase “quarantine brain.” While the act ...Written By: Tiffany DazetSEP 24, 2020Immunology
The SARS-CoV-2 virus was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei, China and quickly escalated to a pandemic st ...Written By: Tara FernandesSEP 23, 2020Microbiology
Poxviruses are deadly viruses that are known to infect both animals and humans. Cowpox and monkeypox are both known to s ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 23, 2020Cancer
The human body has many ways of letting you know something is wrong. It can send signals to tell you that you are hungry ...Written By: Jasper CantrellSEP 22, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Friedreich's ataxia causes degeneration in the peripheral nervous system, and movement is progressively impaired over ti ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 21, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists have used cryo-EM to learn more about how the human genome is replicated.Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 20, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
Almost a year into the beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic and we still do not have a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...Written By: Nouran AminSEP 20, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have found that errors in a gene called LMNB1, which produces the lamin B1 protein, have devastating effects ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 18, 2020Clinical & Molecular DX
Certain health conditions require doctors to be able to observe tissues and organs in order to tell what’s wrong. ...Written By: Tara FernandesSEP 16, 2020Cardiology
The heart is a special organ, and while we know a lot about how it develops, there are still mysteries.Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 16, 2020Genetics & Genomics
The genome still holds many secrets, some of which probably have a direct relationship to human disease. Beyond genes th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 15, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
How Can Genetic Data Make Informed Decisions About Drug Development? Scientists at the Integrative Epidemiology Unit (MR ...Written By: Nouran AminSEP 15, 2020Cardiology
Everyone knows that friend with a tattoo of a molecule of dopamine. Usually associated with the pleasure response, it is ...Written By: Jasper CantrellSEP 15, 2020Cancer
New research published in the journal Acta Biomaterialia highlights the post-operative benefits of soy in treatment ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanSEP 15, 2020Immunology
A therapeutic made from turmeric has been shown to help reduce the effects of a painful inflammatory eye condition in do ...Written By: Tara FernandesSEP 14, 2020Genetics & Genomics
While they may occur in adults, a rare, aggressive type of brain cancer called atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors tend to ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 14, 2020Microbiology
HIV attacks the human immune system's CD4 cells, a major player in the body's defense against pathogens.Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 13, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Most humans carry the same genes in their genome, but how are genes expressed differently in men and women?Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 11, 2020Cell & Molecular Biology
The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Consortium, has produced multiple papers that have provided new insight into human ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 11, 2020Microbiology
While only about 25 of 900 species of tick spread disease, ticks are responsible for an estimated 95 percent of vector-b ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 11, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Telomeres cap the ends of chromosomes. They work to protect the chromosomes from degradation, and are known to get short ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 10, 2020Genetics & Genomics
While institutional racism in the healthcare system plays a major part, there seem to also be biological reasons why the ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 10, 2020Clinical & Molecular DX
A team of innovators from Stanford University has invented the Onchoscope: a low-cost, customizable microscope fo ...Written By: Tara FernandesSEP 09, 2020Cell & Molecular Biology
Diseases that are caused by errors in a gene might be cured if we could correct those errors, or genetic mutations.Written By: Carmen Leitch
SEP 24, 2020
Health & Medicine
By this point in the year, you’ve either heard or uttered the phrase “quarantine brain.” While the act
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
SEP 24, 2020
Immunology
The SARS-CoV-2 virus was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei, China and quickly escalated to a pandemic st
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
SEP 23, 2020
Microbiology
Poxviruses are deadly viruses that are known to infect both animals and humans. Cowpox and monkeypox are both known to s
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 23, 2020
Cancer
The human body has many ways of letting you know something is wrong. It can send signals to tell you that you are hungry
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
SEP 22, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Friedreich's ataxia causes degeneration in the peripheral nervous system, and movement is progressively impaired over ti
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 21, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists have used cryo-EM to learn more about how the human genome is replicated.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 20, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
Almost a year into the beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic and we still do not have a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
SEP 20, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have found that errors in a gene called LMNB1, which produces the lamin B1 protein, have devastating effects
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 18, 2020
Clinical & Molecular DX
Certain health conditions require doctors to be able to observe tissues and organs in order to tell what’s wrong.
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
SEP 16, 2020
Cardiology
The heart is a special organ, and while we know a lot about how it develops, there are still mysteries.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 16, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
The genome still holds many secrets, some of which probably have a direct relationship to human disease. Beyond genes th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 15, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
How Can Genetic Data Make Informed Decisions About Drug Development? Scientists at the Integrative Epidemiology Unit (MR
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
SEP 15, 2020
Cardiology
Everyone knows that friend with a tattoo of a molecule of dopamine. Usually associated with the pleasure response, it is
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
SEP 15, 2020
Cancer
New research published in the journal Acta Biomaterialia highlights the post-operative benefits of soy in treatment
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 15, 2020
Immunology
A therapeutic made from turmeric has been shown to help reduce the effects of a painful inflammatory eye condition in do
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
SEP 14, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
While they may occur in adults, a rare, aggressive type of brain cancer called atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors tend to
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 14, 2020
Microbiology
HIV attacks the human immune system's CD4 cells, a major player in the body's defense against pathogens.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 13, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Most humans carry the same genes in their genome, but how are genes expressed differently in men and women?
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 11, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Consortium, has produced multiple papers that have provided new insight into human
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 11, 2020
Microbiology
While only about 25 of 900 species of tick spread disease, ticks are responsible for an estimated 95 percent of vector-b
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 11, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Telomeres cap the ends of chromosomes. They work to protect the chromosomes from degradation, and are known to get short
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 10, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
While institutional racism in the healthcare system plays a major part, there seem to also be biological reasons why the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 10, 2020
Clinical & Molecular DX
A team of innovators from Stanford University has invented the Onchoscope: a low-cost, customizable microscope fo
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
SEP 09, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
Diseases that are caused by errors in a gene might be cured if we could correct those errors, or genetic mutations.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch