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April 25, 2019     Genetics     The latest Genetics news from News Medical

New genetic information behind urogenital track anomalies uncovered   About one in every 100 babies is born with some kind of developmental anomaly in the urogenital tract. In most cases abnormalities are mild, but sometimes life-long and even life-threatening disease develops.

Study provides new insights into genetic factors underlying facial beauty   Genes play a role in determining the beauty of a person’s face, but that role varies with the person’s sex, according to a new study by Qiongshi Lu and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, published 4th April in PLOS Genetics.         Researchers receive grants to study genetics of contact-lens wearers with and without MK   More than 125 million people worldwide wear contact lenses, and while many are exposed to relatively common bacteria through their contact lenses, not all contract an eye infection.

Poverty can become embedded across wide swaths of the genome, study finds   A new Northwestern University study challenges prevailing understandings of genes as immutable features of biology that are fixed at conception.       Study uncovers genetic causes of poor sleep   The international collaboration, led by the University of Exeter and published in Nature Communications, has found 47 links between our genetic code and the quality, quantity and timing of how we sleep. They include ten new genetic links with sleep duration and 26 with sleep quality.       Researchers map genetic mutation behind incurable disease   Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have mapped the genetic mutation behind the incurable disease systemic mastocytosis.       Study uncovers genetic variant associated with liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C patients   A new study from The Westmead Institute for Medical Research has identified a genetic variant associated with liver fibrosis (scarring) in chronic hepatitis C patients. This finding is a step toward reducing the number of patients requiring liver transplants.       New gene therapy cures babies with fatal 'Bubble Boy' disease   A new gene therapy created by US researchers appears to have cured eight infant boys born with a rare genetic disorder referred to as “Bubble Boy” disease.

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