A study of the genetic variations that underlie differences in insulin secretion in mice has identified a number of candidate genes that may drive the development of conditions such as type 2 diabetes.
Price E. Dickson, Ph.D., an assistant professor of biomedical sciences at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, has received a $407,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the genetic and genomic mechanisms driving the relationship between social reward and cocaine addiction.
In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv preprint server, the authors demonstrated that the sarbecovirus pathogenesis was regulated by a multitrait locus.
Males and females differ in prevalence, treatment responses, and survival rates for a variety of diseases. For cardiac disease, women almost uniformly fare far worse than men. There are likely many reasons for this, and scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Princeton University seemed to have found one deep inside cells before we're even born.