As Justin Timberlake revealed this week that he has been quietly battling Lyme disease during his recent world tour, the latest data from the CDC shows how dramatically the tick-borne illness has been ...

Scientists have developed a genome-scale metabolic model or 'subway map' of key metabolic activities of the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Using this map, they have successfully identified two ...

For decades, geneticists have known that most common illnesses are not caused by a single rogue gene but by intricate constellations of DNA variants acting together in specific cells. Now a new ...

Millions of NHS patient records have been analysed to create a comprehensive map of diseases linked to eczema. The linkage study found that, beyond well-established associations with other atopic ...

Tampere University researchers developed a method to map mechanistic connections between diseases, revealing deeper associations beyond traditional classifications based on affected organs and ...

Researchers have released TripletDGC, a publicly available resource that links nearly 10,000 disease-associated genes to the specific cell types they most strongly affect, filling a critical gap in ...

Over 1,000 genes may serve as possible treatment targets for individuals with kidney disease, according to a new study. By creating the most complete and detailed genetic 'map' of kidney function to ...

The lack of a real-time disease map helped fuel the Ebola outbreak last summer, because responders were behind the outbreaks instead of in front of them. It’s why other infectious diseases like Dengue ...