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Heritable disease and Complex traits The Biology of Sex and …

WEBTraits are complex, influenced by gene pathways, polygenic inheritance, and environmental effects. [Modified from Khan Academy] While single gene diseases do exist, they are …

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Georgia Tech Researchers Tackle Cancer Health Disparities

WEBThanks to better diagnostics, therapeutics, and care, the overall cancer mortality rate has plummeted in the past 20 years. But cancer survival disparities …

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New International Center Will Support Collaborative Solutions to

WEBIn a significant response to urgent climate-related threats, a new international center headquartered at Georgia Aquarium, endorsed by the UN Decade of Ocean Science for …

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How to Pre-Health at Tech: Alonzo Whyte, Health and Medical …

WEBHow to Pre-Health at Tech is a new series of stories and experiences with our faculty, current students, and alumni working in healthcare and medical fields. Check …

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Integrative Health Module Biological Principles

WEBIntegrative Health Module. This final, short module integrates and applies concepts from previous modules to human health. Recombinant DNA. Cloning and Stem Cells. …

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Human evolution and adaptation Biological Principles

WEBSvante Pääbo: DNA clues to our inner neanderthal. Watch on. As human populations settled different areas around the world, they evolved to adapt to their local environment. …

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Ethnicity, life expectancy data can aid in health equity efforts

WEBNew research from the Jordan Lab points to mortality risk factors that are group-specific, but modifiable, supporting the notion of targeted interventions that could lead to greater …

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Adaptive Immunity Biological Principles

WEBAdaptive immune system has specificity and memory. The adaptive immune system takes some time: 1-2 weeks, to mount a full-fledged response to any pathogen or biological …

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Nutrient Needs and Adaptations Organismal Biology

WEBCarnivorous plants: Carnivorous plants have specialized leaves that and digest insects or small vertebrates, typically as an adaptation to supplement nutrient access in extremely …

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A Rare Genetic Spotlight on Health Disparities for IBD

WEBThe advent of whole genome sequencing technology has prompted an explosion in research into how genetics are associated with disease risk. But the vast …

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Prokaryotes: Bacteria & Archaea Organismal Biology

WEBPhylogenetic Relationships Between Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya. While the term prokaryote (“before-nucleus”) is widely used to describe both Archaea and Bacteria, you …

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Population Pharmacogenomics for Health Equity

WEBGenes 2023, 14, 1840 2 of 11 disparities. We highlight examples from our own research on the relationship between race, ethnicity, ancestry, and pharmacogenomic variation in …

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Population Genetics: the Hardy-Weinberg Principle

WEBThe Hardy-Weinberg analysis in the lower half of the figure models the result of random mating in the absence of selection, drift, mutation or migration (eg, in the absence of …

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ASPIRE-ing to Find Fast Solutions to the Opioid Health Crisis

WEBResearchers are already hard at work trying to find fast scientific solutions to the national opioid public health crisis, which the Department of Health and Human …

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Colombian Genome

WEBDescription Contributions; Title: “Predicción Colombia” – A Platform for Pharmacogenomics Vigilance in Colombia. Objective: To create a pilot platform to facilitate data-driven, …

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Evolution by Natural Selection Biological Principles

WEBEvolution by natural selection occurs when certain genotypes produce more offspring than other genotypes in response to the environment. It is a non-random change in allele …

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Home School of Biological Sciences Georgia Institute of …

WEBCMDI Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection The Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection (CMDI) is an interdisciplinary collaboration at Georgia Tech seeking to …

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