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Continuously updated · latest Oct 22, 2026

Lessons that are free to use in any classroom, new research, changes to the dataset, plain-language explainers, and the real genetics behind things you already know. Every entry says which subject it belongs to and what you need to know before reading it. Medical information goes stale, so entries are revised when the evidence moves — revised entries show their update date, not just the day they were first published. Every article here is CC BY-NC 4.0 licensed — free to share and adapt with credit, not for commercial use (details).

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Genetics said lowering Lp(a) should help — the pelacarsen trial result against the 2009 causal-genetics finding

Genetics said lowering Lp(a) should help. An 8,323-person trial just tested that.

Novartis's pelacarsen trial lowered Lp(a) but not cardiovascular events. A 2009 genetics paper — whose exact variants are on our own Lp(a) page — is part of why that result surprised people.

Updated Sep 14, 2026 9 72

Why the new Alzheimer's drugs check APOE4 first — ARIA risk by genotype, from the CLARITY AD trial

Why the new Alzheimer's drugs check APOE4 first

Lecanemab and donanemab both carry a real side-effect risk that scales sharply with APOE genotype — which is exactly what our own APOE page already measures.

Updated Sep 14, 2026 6 71

Genetics papers went from one institution to nine — a survey of the 671 papers behind MyGeneLog

Genetics papers went from one institution to nine

We tried to survey which universities research what, using the 671 papers this site cites. The survey failed, and how it failed is the more interesting result.

Updated Sep 8, 2026 8 66

Research roundup, September 2026

Research roundup — September 2026

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31 new papers published this month on variants MyGeneLog™ covers.

Updated Sep 16, 2026 7 80