Largest study of its kind implicates gene abnormalities in bipolar disorder August 17, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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A large genetic study of bipolar disorder has implicated machinery that balances levels of sodium and calcium in neurons. The disorder was associated with variation in two genes that make components of such ion channels. ... | |
Maelstrom quashes jumping genes August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Scientists have known for decades that certain genes (called transposons) can jump around the genome in an individual cell. This activity can be dangerous, however, especially when it arises in cells that produce eggs and ... | |
Large reservoir of mitochondrial DNA mutations identified in humans August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Researchers at the University of Newcastle, England, and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech in the United States have revealed a large reservoir of mitochondrial DNA mutations present in the general population. ... | |
Obesity genes revealed August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A study of 228 women has revealed genetic variants responsible for body shape. Based on work in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, research published today in the open access journal BMC Genetics identifies natural ... | |
Study helps pinpoint genetic variations in European Americans August 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
An international team of researchers has identified just 200 positions within the curves of the DNA helix that they believe capture much of the genetic diversity in European Americans, a population with one of the most diverse ... | |
Researchers uncover West Nile's targets August 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Screening the entire human genome, a team headed by Yale University scientists have identified several hundred genes that impact West Nile virus infection. The findings reported Wednesday online in the journal Nature ... | |
Cutting the brakes on the immune system August 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Your immune system may have more in common with a Corvette than you thought. When a virus or bacteria enters a human body, the immune system revs up to fight and expel the invader. Once the invader is gone, the body puts ... | |
When our protective armor shows weakness August 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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New knowledge points to the fact that a genetically induced lack of filaggrin, a key protein of the skin barrier, plays a decisive role in the origin of allergies. In a large study on more than 3000 school-children scientists ... | |
Searching for shut eye: Study identifies possible sleep gene July 29, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
While scientists and physicians know what happens if you don't get six to eight hours of shut-eye a night, investigators have long been puzzled about what controls the actual need for sleep. Researchers at the University ... | |
Defining DNA differences to track and tackle typhoid July 28, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
For the first time, next-generation DNA sequencing technologies have been turned on typhoid fever - a disease that kills 600,000 people each year. The results will help to improve diagnosis, tracking of disease spread and ... | |
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 ... | |
Study of dark-skinned mice leads to protein linked to bone marrow failure in humans July 20, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The study of dark-skinned mice has led to a surprising finding about a common protein involved in tumor suppression, report researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The results may lead to new treatments ... | |
Gene's newly explained effect on height may change tumor disorder treatment August 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A mutation that causes a childhood tumor syndrome also impairs growth hormone secretion, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found. | |
Testosterone and body fat are controlled by the same genes August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Genes that control percentage of body fat are also responsible for circulating levels of testosterone in men, research published in the latest edition of Clinical Endocrinology shows. The research shows a 23% overlap between ... | |
Inherited form of hearing loss stems from gene mutation July 31, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Pat Phalin learned she had hearing loss at 30, when she volunteered to give hearing tests at her local school. The pupils heard sounds she could not hear. | |
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