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A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis identifies a possible treatment strategy for some bone marrow failure syndromes.

Evolutionary medicine scientists from UCLA are applying insights from ecology and evolution to inform research on biomedicine, public health and clinical care.

Researchers from the University of Rochester suggest the process in our brain that allows us to see illusory shapes may not be the same in children with autism spectrum disorder.

A USC Study identified nine new genetic variants that increase the risk of prostate cancer in Men of African Descent, an understudied population.
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