Genetic research into more complex conditions - such as heart disease - can sometimes help to find clues about the biological mechanisms underlying such diseases. In addition, a high risk of some ...

How Is Gene Expression Regulated? The amounts and types of mRNA molecules in a cell reflect the function of that cell. In fact, thousands of transcripts are produced every second in every cell.

During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times. Give a tennis ball a good, hard squeeze. You're using about the same amount of force your heart uses to pump ...

The one-year Congenital Cardiac Surgery Fellowship at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine is one of only 11 ACGME-approved congenital heart surgery fellowships in the United ...

Internal and external environmental factors, like gender and temperature, influence gene expression. Sex-limited traits are also autosomal. Unlike sex-influenced traits, whose expression differs ...

Share on Facebook. Opens in a new tab or window Share on X. Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window LONG BEACH, Calif. -- A gene therapy for therapeutic ...

Genealogy companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe have to get your permission before they store, use, or share your DNA, under the Genetic Information Privacy Act ...

The states and districts that pay Genetic Counselors the highest mean salary are California ($131,800), Massachusetts ($114,330), Vermont ($105,190), Connecticut ($104,990), and Colorado ($103,440).

Not in California. Under the state’s top-two primary system, the first and second place finishers advance, regardless of their party affiliation — a system voters enacted over a decade ago ...

Noncompliance with immunosuppressive therapy was found to be a major risk factor for late acute rejections in a study of 101 heart transplant recipients. [11] Patients who had a late acute ...

Hypertensive heart disease refers to heart conditions caused by high blood pressure. The heart working under increased pressure causes some different heart disorders. Hypertensive heart disease ...