A research team, led by John Guy, M.D., professor of ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, has pioneered a novel technological treatment for Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON), an inherited genetic defect that causes rapid...
Hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSPs) are a group of inherited neurodegenerative disorders characterized by progressive weakness and spasticity (stiffness) of the legs. Mutations in more than 30 genes have been linked to HSPs...
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Scientists from the EPFL and the University of Geneva have discovered a genetic mechanism that defines the shape of our members in which, surprisingly, genes play only a secondary role. The research, published in Cell online, shows the mechanism is found in a DNA sequence that was thought...
My dad is psychic in the sense that he can predict the future before it happens.
Like the year that I stopped caring about my school work, he kept having a recurring dream that he was going to class and flunking all of his courses.
a couple of years later, he had a recurring dream that...
My father was a pretty heavy drinker for 30 years and my mother was a chain smoker for 35 years. Both sides of my family have lots of alcoholics and smokers. My mother also smoked while she was pregnant with my sister and I. With my family history being said, here is my question.
My sister...
Medical College of Georgia researchers have identified the culprit gene for a rare condition that turns smiles into grimaces and impedes bladder and bowel control. Their finding provides new insight into urofacial syndrome as well as incontinence in general which affects some 20 percent of the...