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Can food treat cancer? There’s no ‘miracle cure’, but healthy diets are major factor in reducing risk
It was several months into her treatment for breast cancer that my mom began researching “miracle foods.” So we went on ...
14 genes that cause obesity identified, opening the door to targeted, personalized treatments
Promising news in the effort to develop drugs to treat obesity: University of Virginia scientists have identified 14 genes that ...
Obesity and genetics: Researchers have found 14 genes that cause weight gain and three that help prevent it, opening door to new treatments
Obesity has become an epidemic, driven in large part by high-calorie diets laden with sugar and high-fructose corn syrup. Increasingly ...
DNA glowing in 3D: We can now track genes moving in real time using CRISPR
Mazhar Adli, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, has developed a way to ...
Heart disease, diabetes linked to 90 genes active in fat cells
A sweeping international effort is connecting the dots between genes in our fat cells and our risk for obesity and ...
How will CRISPR, gene editing be regulated?
[Editor's note: University of Virginia professor Randall Lutter talks about CRISPR and its regulation.] Now a member of the faculty at UVA’s ...