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 ... | |
Mutant testis cells behind genetic disorder have survival advantage July 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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In a cruel irony, testis cells carrying the mutation that causes Apert's syndrome are fitter than normal cells, even though children born from sperm derived from those cells are weakened by fused fingers, toes and skulls, ... | |
Researchers discover a gene that regulates and blocks ovulation July 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A group of Canadian and European researchers have unlocked the mystery of a gene with the potential to both regulate and block ovulation. The new study – a collaboration between the Université de Montréal in Canada and the ... | |
Gene produces hormones that lead to obesity July 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Obesity and common weight gain share a genetic basis. Professor Philippe Froguel, from Imperial College in Great Britain, and his team from the laboratoire Génomique et physiologie moléculaire des maladies ... | |
Researchers discover gene signatures for scleroderma July 16, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Distinct genetic profiles can discern different groups of patients with scleroderma, a vexing autoimmune disease in which the body turns against itself, Dartmouth Medical School researchers report. Their discovery of distinguishing ... | |
Researchers find a partially shared genetic profile between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder July 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder can be disabling conditions, and both present clinically with significant mood and psychotic symptoms. These two illnesses also share genetic variants that might be involved in the ... | |
New study replicates association between genetic variation and antidepressant treatment response July 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Pharmacogenetics, the study of genetic variation that influences an individual's response to drugs, is an important and growing focus in all of medical research, including psychiatry. It is a complex field, however, revealed ... | |
'Smothered' genes combine with mutations to yield poor outcome in cancer patients July 15, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers have identified a set of genes in breast and colon cancers with a deadly combination of traditional mutations and "smothered" gene activity that may result in poor outcomes for ... | |
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