MicroRNAs Provide New Insight in Study of Autism July 01, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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MicroRNAs may play an important role in the development of autism spectrum disorder, according to a new paper by University of California, Santa Barbara professor Kenneth S. Kosik. | |
Relaxation response can influence expression of stress-related genes July 02, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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How could a single, nonpharmacological intervention help patients deal with disorders ranging from high blood pressure, to pain syndromes, to infertility, to rheumatoid arthritis? That question may have been answered by ... | |
 Researchers identify new targets for RNAs that regulate genes July 06, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Tiny strands of genetic material called RNA – a chemical cousin of DNA – are emerging as major players in gene regulation, the process inside cells that drives all biology and that scientists seek to control ... | |
Low health insurance caps leave patients stranded July 13, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Mary Wusterbarth thought her toddler was struggling with an ear infection when she seemed sluggish. Instead, a virus had attacked the little girl's heart, damaging it beyond repair. Brea needed a transplant. | |
Blood-related genetic mechanisms found important in Parkinson's disease July 21, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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What does the genetics of blood cells have to do with brain cells related to Parkinson's disease? From an unusual collaboration of neurologists and a pharmacologist comes the surprising answer: Genetic mechanisms at play ... | |
Researchers locate and image prostate cancer as it spreads to lymph nodes July 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Using an engineered common cold virus, UCLA researchers delivered a genetic payload to prostate cancer cells that allowed them, using Positron Emission Tomography (PET), to locate the diseased cells as they spread to the ... | |
UT pathologists believe they have pinpointed Achilles heel of HIV July 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 67 vote(s)
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston believe they have uncovered the Achilles heel in the armor of the virus that continues to kill millions. | |
 Parasite vaccines within reach July 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Even though parasites are complex creatures, the mammalian immune response to them is surprisingly simple, leading University of California, Berkeley, researchers to predict that creating vaccines for parasitic ... | |
Middle Eastern families yield intriguing clues to autism July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Research involving large Middle Eastern families, sophisticated genetic analysis and groundbreaking neuroscience has implicated a half-dozen new genes in autism. More importantly, it strongly supports the emerging idea that ... | |
Study identifies toxic key to Alzheimer’s disease memory loss June 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Using new scientific techniques, scientists have unlocked the cascade of molecular events that lead to Alzheimer’s disease. The scientific findings published in the latest edition of Nature Medicine suggest a potential new ... | |
Discovery of gene mechanism could bring about new ways to treat metastatic cancer July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Virginia Commonwealth University and VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers have uncovered how a gene, melanoma differentiation associated gene-7/interleukin-24 (mda-7/IL-24), induces a bystander effect that kills cancer cells ... | |
Ionophore reverses Alzheimer's within days in mouse models July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Scientists report a remarkable improvement in Alzheimer's transgenic mice following treatment with a new drug. The study, published by Cell Press in the July 10th issue of the journal Neuron, provides the first demonstration ... | |
Video released of rapid Alzheimer's improvement after new immune-based treatment July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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New research into the treatment of Alzheimer's disease reports improvement in language abilities using a novel immune-based approach. A video accompanying the research, published today in the open access journal BMC Neurology, ... | |
Zinc finger proteins put personalized HIV therapy within reach June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and collaborators are using minute, naturally occurring proteins called zinc fingers to engineer T cells to one day treat AIDS in humans. | |
Researchers discover mechanism that explains how cancer enzyme winds up on ends of chromosomes July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Human cancer cells divide and conquer. Unless physicians can control that division with surgery, chemotherapy or radiation, the wildly dividing cells will eventually destroy a person's life. | |
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