England rugby legend Moody diagnosed with MND: Understanding the disease, causes, and warning signs

Former England rugby captain Lewis Moody has been diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND), a progressive condition ...
Nature

Defects in TCIRG1 subunit of the vacuolar proton pump are responsible for a subset of human autosomal recessive osteopetrosis

Figure 1: Bone marrow specimen from an osteopetrotic patient and a normal control. These transcripts are not normal splicing variants, because we did not identify any abnormal bands by RT–PCR in 14 ...
Nature

Photoreceptors in evolution and disease

A new study identifies the gene that, when mutated, causes autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa 25 (arRP25). The RP25 gene encodes an ortholog of Drosophila spacemaker (eyes shut), thus ...
New Scientist

What’s my Alzheimer’s risk, and can I really do anything to change it?

Can you escape your genetic inheritance, and do lifestyle changes actually make a difference? Daniel Cossins set out to ...
Science Daily

It’s not just genes — parents can pass down longevity another way

Scientists studying tiny roundworms have uncovered how the secrets of a long life can be passed from parents to their ...

Is alcohol use disorder genetic? How having a relative with AUD predisposes you to developing it

Alcohol use disorder can be genetic. The environmental and biological presence of excessive alcohol use raises someone's risk of developing it.
The Independent

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Sign up to our free money email for help building your wealth Written by Business and Money Editor Karl Matchett, the newsletter also features a weekly money poll ...