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This microscope image shows the 46 human chromosomes, blue, with telomeres appearing as white pinpoints. Scientists have found the genetic cause of a neurodevelopmental disorder that they estimate affects as many as one in 20,000 young people. And they hope their discovery leads to a new diagnosis that can provide answers to families. They published their findings in the journal Nature Medicine on Friday (Hesed Padilla-Nash, Thomas Ried/National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health via AP, File)

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Researchers find a single, surprising gene behind a disorder that causes intellectual disability
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Fri,05/31/24-10:01AM , 52 Reads
Scientists have found the genetic root of a disorder that causes intellectual disability, which they estimate affects as many as one in 20,000 young people. And they hope their discovery leads to a new diagnosis that can provide answers to families.
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After Roe, the network of people who help others get abortions see themselves as 'the underground'
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Sat,05/04/24-7:48AM , 97 Reads
NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of “abortion aftercare kits,” Kimra Luna got a text. A woman who’d taken abortion pills three weeks earlier was worried about bleeding — and disclosing the cause to a doctor.
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After Roe, the network of people who help others get abortions see themselves as 'the underground'
By LAURA UNGAR - AP Science Writer
Sat,05/04/24-7:47AM , 73 Reads
NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of “abortion aftercare kits,” Kimra Luna got a text. A woman who’d taken abortion pills three weeks earlier was worried about bleeding — and disclosing the cause to a doctor.
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Rats swarm around a bag of garbage near a dumpster in New York on July 7, 2000. A study published Wednesday, April 3, 2024, in the journal Science Advances suggests that brown rats crawled off ships arriving in the Americas earlier than previously thought and out-competed rodent rivals – infuriating and disgusting generations of city-dwellers and becoming so ubiquitous in North American cities that they’re known as common rats, street rats or sewer rats. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea, File)

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How brown rats crawled off ships and conquered North American cities
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Wed,04/03/24-1:01PM , 68 Reads
Brown rats are the undisputed winners of the real rat race.
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