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Your salt cravings may be in your genes

You may have heard of a sweet tooth, but researchers are suggesting that some people may have a salt tooth, too. This ‘salt tooth’ may affect your salt preferences and may help explain why some like saltier food than others. Lead researcher Jennifer Smith explained that some genetic variants make people more aware of bitter ...click here to read more

Contagious fungal infections causes, prevention, treatment, athletes foot study

Fungal infections, like athlete’s foot, are easily treated but other types of fungal infections can spread beneath the skin onto lymph nodes, bones, digestive tract and even the brain. Some researchers suggest that there is a genetic connection when it comes to infectious diseases that determine whether or not a person will have complications from ...click here to read more

Heart disease, stroke risk in women higher if artery disease causing gene present

Heart disease and stroke risk in women is higher if an artery disease-causing gene is present. Heart disease is the primary cause of death within the U.S., and a person dies from a heart disease-related event every minute. To prevent heart attack it’s important to understand what increases a person’s risk. Researchers identified a gene ...click here to read more

Research Suggests a New Way to Detect Bladder Cancer

The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2013, there will be approximately 72,570 new cases of bladder cancer detected in the United States, and about 15,210 deaths occurring from bladder cancer during this time. Researchers from the Spanish National Cancer Research Institute have found that over 70 percent of bladder cancer tumors display somatic mutations ...click here to read more

How to Alter Your Own DNA To Avoid Disease

We all know that exercise is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle with the power to make us look and feel better; but not everyone realizes that exercise can actually affect you at the genetic level. New research published in the journal PLOS Genetics has revealed that exercise changes the way that your genes express themselves, ...click here to read more

Aging Brain – The Specific Gene That Causes It

One in eight older Americans has Alzheimer’s disease and this statistic is likely to rise with the aging population.  Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, according to www.alz.org.  People suffering with brain disease, including Alzheimer’s disease, often lose their memory and over time, this memory loss becomes debilitating. Research ...click here to read more