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‘Mosaic’ gene mutations could explain some cases of autism

The causes of autism remain mysterious. Scientists have linked autism spectrum disorder to a long list of genes, but most

Vaccine development is typically measured in years, not months. But as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, scientists are are racing

Colorectal cancer screening rates jumped by more than 1,000 percent when researchers sent take-at-home tests to patients overdue for testing

The molecular details of how SARS-CoV-2 enters cells and infects them are still not clear. Researchers at Uppsala University have

When researchers began to develop what they hoped would be an effective COVID-19 vaccine, they already knew that H1N1 influenza—a

The sense of hearing is, quite literally, a molecular tightrope act. Turns out, it involves acrobatics as well. In a

Higher blood pressure at night than in daytime may be a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease in older men, according

A new process for inserting synthetic gene circuits into host cells, developed by a team of bioengineers at Arizona State

The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine fails to prevent mild and moderate cases of the South African coronavirus strain, researchers said Sunday. The

A new discovery by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and its affiliated Soroka University Medical Center shows