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Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have published results that shed new light on an old question: what causes aging at the molecular level? Their findings, published ...

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In two new papers, researchers from The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) report the successful use of two approaches—gene therapy and ...

Seattle doctors developed a blood test that determines the parental origin of the RB1 mutation in retinoblastoma.