Archive for January, 2009
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
UCSF researchers have used a new strategy to study inherited susceptibility for skin cancer in mice. In the process, they have identified a network of genes that may play a key role in controlling this susceptibility. The technique, the ...
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
A study looking at the entire human genome has identified new genes that appear to be involved in making some children more susceptible to Kawasaki disease, a serious illness that often leads to coronary artery disease, according to a new international study published in PLoS Genetics. This is the first ...
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
First complete mitochondrial genome of the extinct animal suggests genetics left species vulnerable to disease
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
Scholars have long struggled with questions about when and where the majority of the thousands of painstakingly handwritten books produced in medieval Europe originated. Now a researcher is using modern advances in genetics to develop techniques that will shed light on the origins of these important cultural artifacts.
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
(Albert Einstein College of Medicine) A study on genetic variation led by a scientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University was selected by Nature as one of 15 "evolutionary gems" of the past decade.
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine feels that the social networking website, Facebook, would be well-advised to review its policy banning photographs of breastfeeding mothers.
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Genes talk to themselves and to each other to control how a given cell manufactures proteins. But variation in the control of the same gene in two different tissues may contribute to certain human traits, including the likelihood of getting a disease, said a team of geneticists and neuroscientists.
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
A two-legged molecular machine that is designed to walk unaided along a single strand of DNA could soon carry cargo and may one day deliver drugs inside cells
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
New evidence in mice bolsters the notion that a version of a gene earlier shown to protect lean people against weight gain and insulin resistance can have the opposite effect in those who eat a high-fat diet and are heavier, reveals a new report in the journal Cell Metabolism.
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Mutation of a gene that helps proteins migrate in and out of the cell's genetic command center -- the nucleus -- puts some families at higher risk for the degenerative brain disease acute necrotizing encephalopathy.
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