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Just in time for Valentine’s Day: UNC researchers identify a gene critical for heart function

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Everyone knows chocolate is critical to a happy Valentine’s Day. Now scientists are one step closer to knowing what makes a heart happy the rest of the year.
It’s a gene called DOT1L, and if you don’t have enough of t…

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Gene identified that prevents stem cells from turning cancerous

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Stem cells, the prodigious precursors of all the tissues in our body, can make almost anything, given the right circumstances. Including, unfortunately, cancer. Now research from Rockefeller University shows that having too many stem cells, or stem …

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Swimming upstream: Molecular approaches to better understand male infertility

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PHILADELPHIA – Male infertility is a common medical problem, affecting millions of men in the United States annually. Its causes include an inability to make productive sperm. Now, using yeast as a model organism, researchers at the University of Pe…

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