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The team—led by scientists at the Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital—identified four new genes linked to the degenerative neural disease. Only one other gene had been previously associated with the illness.
Stem cell research usually makes news when scientists use it to grow something. Take, for example, this week’s story about the successful transplantation of a windpipe grown from stem cells. But while transplantation is “a very exciting application of stem cells,�...
Kahn has also researched insulin resistance, a phenomenon that is central to Type 2 Diabetes but about which little was known in the 1970s. Kahn has devoted his career to studying the various aspects of Type 2, which represents roughly 90 percent of worldwide diabetes cases. The condition is acquired...
The proliferation of such programs might tempt parents to outsource their kids' financial education. But private banks can't impart the personal values and work ethic that help ensure success in life from an early age. Those character traits, like genes and family wealth itself, must be passed down from...
That will likely be just one of many changes in the thinking behind heart-disease prevention. JUPITER's results shore up the contention that one heart attack is not the same as the next. Cardiologists think that cholesterol and inflammation conspire to cause heart attacks but that each person's...