Recent advances in high-throughput genomic technologies are showing concrete results in the form of an increasing number of genome-wide association studies and in the publication of comprehensive ...

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Biomedical research is being transformed through the application of information technologies that allow ever greater amounts of data to be shared on an unprecedented scale. However, the methods for ...

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Perhaps one of the most damaging misconceptions about the “sex talk” is that it should happen all at once. You sit your child down when you think they’re ready. You lay out the birds and the bees — ...

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A new online sexual consent resource for Irish third-level institutions will be an "example of best practice" for the rest of the world, Further Education Minister Simon Harris has said. Mr Harris was ...

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