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Women may be at greater risk of experiencing chronic pain because the condition has a different genetic basis in men and women. Keira Johnston of the University of Glasgow and colleagues report these findings in a new study published April 8th in
PLOS Genetics.
Chronic pain is a common and potentially debilitating condition that tends to affect more women than men. To explore this disparity, researchers undertook the largest ever genetic study of chronic pain that analyzed women and men separately. They looked for genetic variants associated with chronic pain in 209,093 women and 178,556 men, and compared the results. In women, 31 genes were associated with chronic pain, while 37 genes were linked in men. A single gene was associated with chronic pain in both sexes. The researchers also investigated whether the activity of these genes was turned up or down in tissues known to be related to chronic pain. They found that all 37 ge
Satish Sadasivan was glorified with the title The Most Admired Global Indians 2020 ANI | Updated: Jan 27, 2021 17:11 IST
New Delhi [India], January 27 (ANI/Digpu): For some people, a job chooses them. Qualifications, education, and everything else needed a step in the working world to make no difference in such scenarios.
Satish Sadasivan, Chief Mentor and Advisor at EvolveBPM, belongs to that tiny lot of lucky people. He never trained to become a sales professional but surprisingly is prospering as one since the year 1995. The Most Admired Global Indians 2020 was launched virtually on 9th January 2021 by Unified Brainz as a gesture to celebrate 2nd anniversary of its international magazine - Passion Vista. The spectacular event witnessed not only powerful personalities but also leading visionaries from around the globe who are crack jacks of their field.
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LONDON, Dec. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, is pleased to announce that Dr. Hannah Valantine, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and former National Institutes of Health (NIH) Chief Scientific Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity has been appointed to the company s independent Inclusion and Diversity Advisory Board.
Dr. Valantine will join nine other distinguished research leaders who are members of the Elsevier Inclusion and Diversity Board. Established in March 2020 and chaired by Kumsal Bayazit, Elsevier CEO, and Dr. Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of
The
Lancet, the Board aims to create a more equitable research ecosystem through standards, best practices and initiatives that support long-term, measurable change. These include actions to bring about greater balance in gender, racial, ethnic and geographic representation in academic research, for exam