December 21, 2017 – No pain on gain. This headline might not at all apply for this Italian family. In a paper just published in the Journal Brain, researchers describe  a mysterious genetic mutation that effectively negates the sensation of …

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December 01, 2017 – The placebome is a new game in town. That is where genetics and the placebo effect meet. The underlying discipline of study may well be “placebomics”, fitting genetics and the uniquely complex phenotype “Placebo Effect” into …

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November 20, 2017 – Thanks to old aged Amish people, the first ever anti-ageing genetic mutation(s) have been discovered. According to a study published in the Journal Science Advances revealed a research team from a Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, …

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March 10, 2017 – A new gene that can lead to sudden death among young people and athletes has now been identified by an international team of researchers. The gene, called CDH2, causes arrhythmogenic right ventricle cardiomyopathy (ARVC), which is …

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September 19, 2016 – This post presents below a virtually unedited announcement by the American Food & Drug Administration (FDA) concerning Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) therapy  option which gives much hope for at least some of the affected patients. However, be …

Eteplirsen (Exondys 51) for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) approved Read more »