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Nov 2, 2024 | 
scitechdaily.com | Kimberlee D'ardenne
The new algorithm was trained on dozens of complete human genomes and has a 95% accuracy rate at identifying complex structural variants, which can consist of long stretches of DNA. The chromosome on the right has a complex structural variant that the chromosome on the left does not have.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Kimberlee D'ardenne |Nina Bai |Bruce Goldman
For most of human history, drug discovery has often relied on serendipity. Various natural substances, usually from plants, were ingested or applied, their effects judged by both observation and superstition. Through trial and error, some enduring remedies emerged: morphine from poppy seeds, quinine from the bark of cinchona trees and aspirin from the bark of willow trees.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Kimberlee D'ardenne
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility:The 3 billion base pairs that constitute the human genome—the matching jigsaw puzzle pieces of adenine pairing with thymine and cytosine pairing with guanine—are not just the body's instruction manual. Rearrangements in the order of those base pairs are markers of the origins of disease and of our evolutionary history.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Kimberlee D'ardenne |Bruce Goldman
Cells may be little, but they are also fierce and powerful -- as you may have already been reminded while reading the current issue of Stanford Medicine magazine. These tiny building blocks have a lot of the same internal structures in common, such as walls and appendages, an operation center called the nucleus, and energy reservoirs called mitochondria. What cells do with those shared structures varies so widely that new variations of cell functioning continue to be discovered.
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Kimberlee D'ardenne
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
psypost.org | Kimberlee D'ardenne
Dopamine seems to be having a moment in the zeitgeist. You may have read about it in the news, seen viral social media posts about “dopamine hacking” or listened to podcasts about how to harness what this molecule is doing in your brain to improve your mood and productivity. But recent neuroscience research suggests that popular strategies to control dopamine are based on an overly narrow view of how it functions.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Kimberlee D'ardenne |Nina Bai |Mandy Erickson
From the 1930s to the 1950s, tobacco companies regularly advertised in medical journals, promoting their brand of cigarettes as the healthier choice. More doctors smoke Camels, they touted. Philip Morris cigarettes don't cause throat irritation. Menthol cigarettes might even cure the common cold. These may seem like quaint anecdotes from another era, but the tobacco industry continues to solicit allies from the medical community.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
stanmed.stanford.edu | Ivan Maisel |Kimberlee D'ardenne
The rise of mental illness among young people is as daunting as it is undeniable. The rate of adolescents aged 12-17 in the U.S. who suffered a major depressive episode nearly doubled from 8% in 2007 (according to Pew Research Center) to 15.1% in 2018-19 (according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Yes, 2007 is the year that the iPhone debuted, and we’ll save the debate of correlation versus causation for another time.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Kimberlee D'ardenne |Nina Bai |Erin Digitale
Every year, heart disease is responsible for 19 million deaths worldwide. That's nearly twice the number of cancer deaths, yet people's perceptions of heart disease and cancer are remarkably different. The majority of Americans aged 40 to 75 go for regular cancer screenings, such as mammograms and colonoscopies, and if they are diagnosed, are usually diligent about following the recommended treatments. Many are aware of the genetic cancer risk in their families.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Kimberlee D'ardenne |Hanae Armitage |Erin Digitale
When Melissa Eidman, a member of the Yurok Tribe, graduates from the Stanford School of Medicine in the spring, she will start a four-year residency training program in family medicine/OB-GYN. She will also be one step closer to bringing her medical training back to her home on the Yurok Reservation that stretches between coastal Humboldt and Del Norte counties as a primary care physician.
