The genetic control of dental development represents a complex series of events, which can
very schematically be divided in two pathways: specification of type, size and position of …

Background Ending the global tobacco epidemic is a defining challenge in global health.
Timely and comprehensive estimates of the prevalence of smoking tobacco use and …

… Transport of m-ghrelin was saturable only from the brain to the blood direction. M-ghrelin
differs from h-ghrelin in two of its 28 residues, with lysine replacing arginine at position 11 and …

Background Many causes of vision impairment can be prevented or treated. With an ageing
global population, the demands for eye health services are increasing. We estimated the …

With the number of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases soaring worldwide and
limited vaccine availability for the general population in most countries, the monoclonal …

Background Combating viral hepatitis is part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),
and WHO has put forth hepatitis B elimination targets in its Global Health Sector …

We applied high-density microarrays to the enrichment of specific sequences from the human
genome for high-throughput sequencing. After capture of 6,726 approximately 500-base '…

The imbalance between energy intake and expenditure is the underlying cause of the
current obesity and diabetes pandemics. Central to these pathologies is the fat depot: white …

Background The health risks associated with moderate alcohol consumption continue to be
debated. Small amounts of alcohol might lower the risk of some health outcomes but …

Increasingly powerful sequencing technologies are ushering in an era of personal genome
sequences and raising the possibility of using such information to guide medical decisions. …