Bei der Essstörung #Anorexia nervosa spielen bestimmte #Gene eine große Rolle. Auch epigenetische Faktoren sollen an der #Magersucht beteiligt sein. Allerdings werfen Daten von @ankehinney.bsky.social, Luisa Rajcsanyi et al. hier neue Fragen auf: www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3... #Epigenetik

Congratulations to one of our PIs @helenahartmann.com who received one of 10 Top Young Science Best Paper Awards from the medical faculty today! ⭐ And thanks to @ankehinney.bsky.social for the great ceremony and prize announcements ✨ @neurologieessen.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social

This powerful and unbiased way to identify links between genetic variants and biological traits has changed scientists’ understanding of complex diseases and how to treat them https://go.nature.com/3RPTMTG

Wahlpflichtfach Geschlechtersensible Medizin - schon die zweite Woche - superspannend 🤩

An bayerischen Kliniken arbeiten mittlerweile mehr Ärztinnen als Ärzte. Verbandschefin Christiane Groß erklärt, warum davon alle Geschlechter profitieren – und welche Rolle die guten Schulnoten von Mädchen spielen.

The cancellation of the project for political reasons “is pretty alarming,” says cancer researcher Mandi Pratt-Chapman. scim.ag/4b7RZCx

The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. Nature reports on the search to find out what they do. 🧪

This is effectively a snitch on women, people of color, and LGBTQ folks policy. White men can just baselessly accuse any minority of being DEI and get them fired. They created a permission structure to bring back segregation as a matter of policy by calling it anti DEI.

The #FDA website had to remove all information that ensures that - #women, - people of diverse #ethnic backgrounds, - #lgbtq people, - people with #disabilities, - #socially-disadvantaged people are adequately included in #clinical #trials so that new drugs and therapies work for everyone.

1/n Our multi-ancestry #GWAS meta-analysis of major depression is now published in @cellpress.bsky.social. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... A thread 🧵:

The PGC just published the largest multi-ancestry #GWAS of #BipolarDisorder, identifying 298 genetic regions linked to the condition. go.nature.com/3PJhi3W