Genetics

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Genetics

Don't worry

Most pathogenic mutations increase the likelihood of getting sick by only a few percent.

01.02.2022
Genetics

From common ancestors

The gene variant protecting against the "heavy" COVID-19 appeared half a million years ago in the ancestors of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans.

27.01.2022
Genetics

How far did the apple fall

Much of what is discussed by "sofa geneticists" makes Olga Shchagina, Candidate of Medical Sciences, smile.

27.01.2022
Genetics

Oncogenes in a jar

MIPT physicists have calculated the number of oncogenic mutations in different types of cancer, in patients of different demographic and clinical groups.

25.01.2022
Genetics

Non-random mutations

In the most important parts of the genome, new mutations are not only more actively cleaned by selection, but also occur less frequently.

19.01.2022
Genetics

Why aren't we all extinct?

Evolutionary biologist Alexey Kondrashov – about mutations, natural and artificial selection and human evolution.

18.01.2022
Genetics

To the Guinness Book of Records

The new sequencing method makes it possible to read a patient's complete genome in an average of eight hours. And the best time is 5 hours and 2 minutes.

17.01.2022
Genetics

Mutations and infertility

A new genetic mechanism has been identified that can cause severe forms of male infertility.

14.01.2022
Genetics

Another replenishment

A large-scale study revealed 74 new genome regions that are associated with obesity.

13.01.2022
Genetics

Genetic advantage

Many Eskimos digest sugars differently than Europeans, whose mutation of one of the enzymes is hundreds of times less common.

29.12.2021
Genetics

DNA from the ground

In soil samples from the Altai Denisova cave, scientists found microscopic particles unusually rich in ancient DNA.

29.12.2021
Genetics

Sports snips

Single-nucleotide substitutions in the genes regulating testosterone metabolism affect athletic success and disease risk.

27.12.2021
Genetics

Allele-defender

A rare variant of one of the genes may prevent the development of cardiovascular diseases.

10.12.2021
Genetics

Cure cancer before it starts

The hepatitis B virus triggers the process of malignancy of liver cells very early – sometimes decades before the oncological diagnosis.

07.12.2021
Genetics

The most important

The main histocompatibility complex exists in all vertebrates and appeared 450 million years ago together with maxillofacial fish.

07.12.2021
Genetics

Genomes of Russia

Recently, the dream of Russian medical geneticists has come true — scientists have created a database of the genetic diversity of the population of our country.

03.12.2021
Genetics

Transformation of a birthmark

Scientists from the USA have presented an alternative molecular mechanism for the formation of melanocytic nevus.

29.11.2021