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miRNA-Seq uncovers a link between obesity and breast cancer Obesity increases breast cancer (BC) risk in post-menopausal women by mostly unknown molecular mechanisms. In this study, miRNA profiling by RNA-seq was performed in paired benign and malignant biopsies from 12 ...

NYIT (New York Institute of Technology) faculty members Shenglong Zhang, Ph.D., and Wenjia Li, Ph.D., have won a cutting edge research award (R21) from the National Institutes of Health’s National Human Genome Research Institute to develop novel direct RNA sequencing ...

Barcelona, Spain: Obesity is on the rise throughout the world, and in some developed countries two-third of the adult population is either overweight or obese. This brings with it an increased risk of serious conditions such as heart disease, stroke, ...

from The Johns Hopkins Newsletter by Kevin Necochea China is second only to the U.S. in obesity rankings, with an overweight population that has reached 300 million people in the last three decades. Although the majority of obese individuals are ...