The mind boggles

Schizophrenia is one of those important human traits that has eluded understanding despite heavy research investment. It is elusively varia...

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Chronic diseases due to infection?

A new paper in the journal PLOS Pathogens , described here , reports that hypertension, or high blood pressure, may be due to infection wit...

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Even single-gene disorders are complex

We've written a lot about complex disease in this blog, but we thought it was now time to give the complexity of single-gene disorders i...

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