Health & Disease
Nowadays, aspirin is one of the most widely used drugs to treat fever and inflammation.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia, accounting for 50-75% of approximately 44 million dementia cases worldwide...
Cardiovascular disease involves the narrowing or the blocking of blood vessels that can lead to heart attack, stroke and chest pain or angina.
The Celtic curse is explained by genetic changes in one gene that controls iron absorption.
In affected individuals, a blood clot can form at anytime, under any condition, anywhere in the body.
Hereditary hemochromatosis is a deadly but treatable disease, found predominantly in individuals of European descent.
Remember that Friends episode, when Chandler fell asleep at a meeting and ended up with a job in Tulsa?
Climbing Mount Everest or crossing the Sahara by camel? Maybe, you’ve secretly dreamed of doing one of these things?
While the heart attacks are ultimately caused by cholesterol build-up in the blood vessels, familial hypercholesterolemia is actually an inherited genetic disease.
Alpha thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder that reduces the production of hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen.
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Researchers have uncovered multiple genes associated with needing less than 6 hours of sleep at night.
Researchers identify 21 modifiable risk factors for reducing the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
Researchers link genetic changes in the region of DNA that define blood type with susceptibility to COVID-19 infections.
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With an estimate of 26 million people having taken a DNA ancestry test, genetic genealogy has really taken off in the last couple of years.
With so many countries under lockdown, researchers from around the world are racing against time to develop a vaccine for COVID-19.