Lab-grown mini-brains shed light on childhood epilepsy

Why does the same genetic mutation cause a severe brain malformation in some patients but not in others? Researchers from the ...
Mayo Clinic

Biological mechanisms of neuromuscular disorders

Mayo Clinic's Translational Neuromuscular Disease Research Lab led by Nathan P. Staff, M.D., Ph.D., studies the biological ...
brusselstimes

How the Belgian Blue became a heavyweight champion

The Flemish call them ‘dikbil’, which literally means fat buttocks. It’s hardly the most charming name but you can see why. The Belgian Blue has a massive, muscular rear and an equally humongous body, ...
Game Rant

Mewgenics Mutation Guide

Somiya Adrees is a writer at GameRant. Her gaming journey began at a young age with classics like Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog, and Disney's Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge (all of which she ...
Medical Xpress

KRAS mutation type may guide more effective cancer treatments

KRAS is the most frequently mutated oncogene across all human cancers. Although different KRAS mutations have long been thought to exert the same cancer-driving effects, a new study led by UT ...
Page Six

Angelina Jolie makes rare comment on double mastectomy: ‘My scars are a choice’

Angelina Jolie declared that her double mastectomy scars “are a choice” she is “grateful” she was able to make. “I’ve always been someone more interested in the scars and the life that people carry,” ...
STAT

Sperm donor with rare cancer-causing mutation fathers nearly 200 children across Europe

Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.71. LONDON — A sperm donor who unknowingly carried a gene variant that can ...
New York Post

What is inversion 3 mutation? Inside Tatiana Schlossberg’s rare genetic anomaly

Tatiana Schlossberg, the youngest granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, recently revealed she was diagnosed with terminal acute myeloid leukemia (AML) due to a rare genetic anomaly. In a ...
EurekAlert!

Crigler-Najjar syndrome type 2 complicating cholecystitis in a patient with UGT1A1 gene double homozygous mutations

Crigler-Najjar syndrome (CNS) and Gilbert syndrome (GS) are rare autosomal recessive disorders causing unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia due to reduced UGT1A1 enzyme activity, with CNS type 2 (CNS2) ...
Uinterview

Angelina Jolie Opens Up About Having Double Mastectomy & Ovaries Removed After Finding Out She Has BRCA1 Gene Mutation

Angelina Jolie has opened up about undergoing a double mastectomy and having her ovaries removed after discovering she carried the BRCA1 gene mutation. This gene puts her at an 87% lifetime risk of ...
People

An Actress Learned She Had a BRCA Mutation. She Had a Double Mastectomy — Now She's Telling Her Story (Exclusive)

After having a preventative double mastectomy, Devin Sidell wanted to make a movie about her experience Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard ...