Gene variant increases risk of heart failure and shortens lifespan in Black Americans

Study results better define genetic landscape of cervical neuroendocrine tumors

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Duke University have shown that 3-4% of self-identified black people in the United States have a genetic variant that increases the risk of …

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Henry Vilas Zoo performs surgery on orangutan as part of Great Ape Heart Project

Henry Vilas Zoo performs surgery on orangutan as part of Great Ape Heart Project

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NASA CloudSat ends mission to explore the heart of the cloud – NASA

Artist concept of NASA CloudSat spacecraft, which will provide the first global survey of cloud properties to better understand their effects on both weather and climate.

For nearly two decades, its powerful radar has provided never-before-seen detail in clouds and helped advance global weather and climate predictions. CloudSat, a NASA mission designed to observe hurricanes, tally …

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Research led by Stanford University School of Medicine finds two key brain systems at the heart of psychosis

Research led by Stanford University School of Medicine finds two key brain systems at the heart of psychosis

Researchers compared brain scans of people with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome with and without psychosis and found that the brain regions most affected by psychosis were the anterior insula (a key …

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