Genes articles
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Local View: You can run but can't hide from family genes
From the column: "My father, two of my brothers, and one sister all had heart attacks from arterial disease, which I, of course, had been trying to exorcize via exercise from my DNA my entire life."
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AI expected to unravel secrets of non-coding genes
From smart chatbots to apps that can write entire articles, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming an increasingly ubiquitous part of our lives. Michael Schon, a research associate at Wageningen University & Research, is designing an AI tool that can perform comparisons of non-coding RNA on plant genomes. The tool is expected to accelerate and simplify the future development of new plant varieties with greater resistance to drought or diseases, for example.
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Gene Therapy Trial Restores Hearing in Baby Girl
A gene therapy trial at Cambridge University Hospitals in the UK has improved the hearing of an 18-month-old baby girl, born deaf due to auditory neuropathy.