Archive for December, 2008
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
At the 16th Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine & Regenerative Biomedical Technologies in Las Vegas, Zannos Grekos, MD, director of Cardiac and Vascular Disease for Regenocyte Therapeutic (www.regenocyte.com), addressed physicians from around the world with a presentation on patients ...
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
A groundbreaking study of popularity has found that genes elicit not only specific behaviors but also the social consequences of those behaviors.
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
The genes that in vertebrates establish the right and left sides of the body were thought to be of fairly recent origin, since fruit flies and nematodes don't have them. A new study shows that snails do use the same genes as vertebrates, suggesting that these genes arose more than ...
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Reducing the activity of a gene called FKBP12 in the brains of mice affected neuron-to-neuron communication (synapse) and increased both fearful memory and obsessive behavior, indicating the gene could provide a target for drugs to treat diseases such as autism spectrum disorder, obsessive-compulsive disease and others, according to an article ...
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Neonatal diabetes is a rare form of diabetes that is usually detected within the first six months of life. Approximately 50 percent of cases of neonatal diabetes are caused by mutations in either the KIR6.2 gene or the SUR1 gene. A new article describes the development of a mouse model ...
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
There is a significant interaction between parents' years of education and the heritability of reading disability. Researchers concluded that on average, poor instruction or lack of reading practice may often be the main influence on reading disabilities in families with low socioeconomic status, while genes may be the main influence ...
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
(Michigan State University) A groundbreaking study of popularity by a Michigan State University scientist has found that genes elicit not only specific behaviors but also the social consequences of those behaviors.
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
(Association for Psychological Science) The results of a new study show that there is a significant interaction between parents' years of education and the heritability of reading disability. The researchers concluded that on average, poor instruction or lack of reading practice may often be the main influence on reading disabilities ...
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Scientists say they can watch genetic diseases unfolding in the laboratory after finding a way to reproduce affected cells.
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
When neurons started dying in Clive Svendsen's lab dishes, he couldn't have been more pleased. The dying cells -- the same type lost in patients with the devastating neurological disease spinal muscular atrophy -- confirmed that the stem cell biologist had recreated the hallmarks of a genetic disorder in the ...
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