Getting to the roots of hair loss February 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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A healthy individual loses around a hundred hairs a day. Nothing to worry about as long as they are constantly replaced and the losses occur evenly around the whole scalp. But when hair loss goes well beyond this level it ... | |
Ruthless behavior may be genetic April 05, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Israeli researchers said genetics may play a role in the behavior of selfish dictators. | |
Many African-Americans have a gene that prolongs life after heart failure April 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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About 40 percent of African-Americans have a genetic variant that can protect them after heart failure and prolong their lives, according to research conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and ... | |
Genetic variants of USF1 are associated with the increased risk for cardiovascular disease April 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are major contributors to morbidity and mortality worldwide. Several interacting environmental, biochemical, and genetic risk factors can increase disease susceptibility. While some of the genes ... | |
Tiny magnets offer breakthrough in gene therapy for cancer April 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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A revolutionary cancer treatment using microscopic magnets to enable 'armed' human cells to target tumours has been developed by researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Research ... | |
Gene sequence that can make half of us fatter is discovered May 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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A gene sequence linked to an expanding waist line, weight gain and a tendency to develop type 2 diabetes has been discovered as part of a study published today in the journal Nature Genetics. | |
Stabilizing cancer-fighting p53 can also shield a metastasis-promoter May 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Efforts to protect the tumor-suppressor p53 could just as easily shelter a mutant version of the protein, causing cancer cells to thrive and spread rather than die, according to research by scientists at The University of ... | |
Scientists discover small RNAs that regulate gene expression and protect the genome May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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RNA is best known as a working copy of the DNA sequence of genes. In this role, it’s a carrier of the genes’ instructions to the cell, which manufactures proteins according to information in the RNA molecule. | |
Researchers identify gene that regulates glucose levels June 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
In an effort to understand how genes work, a collaborative study which includes the University of Southern California (USC) has identified a gene that regulates glucose levels. The results, which will be published in the ... | |
Researchers find key developmental pathway activates lung stem cells June 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that the activation of a molecular pathway important in stem cell and developmental biology leads to an increase in lung stem cells. Harnessing this ... | |
 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 ... | |
Herceptin targets breast cancer stem cells July 09, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1
A gene that is overexpressed in 20 percent of breast cancers increases the number of cancer stem cells, the cells that fuel a tumor's growth and spread, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive ... | |
Scientists discover key patterns in the packaging of genes July 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Although every cell of our bodies contains the same genetic instructions, specific genes typically act only in specific cells at particular times. Other genes are "silenced" in a variety of ways. One mode of gene silencing ... | |
Can you be born a couch potato? July 16, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
The key to good health is to be physically active. The key to being active is… to be born that way? The well-documented importance of exercise in maintaining fitness has created the idea that individuals can manage their ... | |
Genetic mutation identified for eye complaint July 24, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1
An international research collaboration including research teams from the Children's Hospital in Boston (USA), King's College London and the Peninsula Medical School, has identified a gene that, when mutated, causes Duane ... | |
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