A mutation previously linked to skin disorders like psoriasis may also play a surprising role in gut health, according to new research published by scientists at VIB-UGent and colleagues from UGent, ...

Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune and neurological disorder that strikes women about three times as often as men. There are many suspected causes of MS, including environmental factors (that may be ...

A major collaboration between UC San Diego and 23andMe identified genes that shape cannabis use behaviors. The study linked the CADM2 and GRM3 genes to cannabis use and connected these patterns to ...

Finding functions for gene products using genomic sequence as a guide has proved more difficult than anticipated: almost half of the putative open reading frames (ORFs) of recently sequenced microbial ...

Obesity is a global epidemic affecting millions of people every day and is associated with comorbidities ranging from heart disease and Type 2 diabetes to osteoarthritis and social stigma. While ...

LONDON :Spending on new UK data centres is set to rise to 10 billion pounds a year by 2029, a more than five-fold increase from 2024, analysis by construction data firm Barbour ABI has found. A total ...