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Treatment-Resistant Depression Linked to BMI

Genetic factors play a small but significant role in treatment-resistant depression (TRD), with notable genetic overlap with schizophrenia, attention deficit…

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Tiny Fern Has the Largest Genome of Any Organism on Earth

Researchers have identified Tmesipteris oblanceolata, a fern from New Caledonia, as having the largest genome recorded, surpassing the previous record-holder…

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Scientists Uncover Surprising Reemergence of Once-Lost Biological Traits

Recent research on stick insects demonstrates that genes related to lost traits may be preserved over evolutionary time scales due…

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Anglerfish’s Strategy To Conquer the Deep Sea Amid Global Warming

The evolutionary context of anglerfish immunogenomic degradation. Credit: Current Biology/Brownstein et al. Research published in Current Biology reveals that sexual…

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How a Single Gene Mutation is Rewriting the Book on Intellectual Disability

A groundbreaking study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with international teams, reveals…

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Researchers Link Protein Levels to Severe Intellectual Deficiencies

Model showing the interaction between a portion of the AFF3 protein (in white) and ubiquitin ligase (in green and gold),…

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