Researchers find a partially shared genetic profile between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder July 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 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 ... | |
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 ... | |
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 ... | |
'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 ... | |
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 ... | |
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, ... | |
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 ... | |
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 ... | |
Genetic variations put youth at higher risk for lifetime of tobacco addiction July 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Common genetic variations affecting nicotine receptors in the nervous system can significantly increase the chance that European Americans who begin smoking by age 17 will struggle with lifelong nicotine addiction, according ... | |
Enzyme key to 'sister act' that maintains genome stability July 10, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Keeping the genome stable is a "sister act" of matched chromatids – the pairs of the double helix DNA molecule that exist during the chromosome duplication in the S phase of the cell cycle. | |
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 ... | |
Researchers reveal types of genes necessary for brain development July 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Brandeis University have successfully completed a full-genome RNAi screen in neurons, showing what types of genes are necessary for brain development. Details of the screen and ... | |
 Common mutations linked to common obesity in Europeans July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Scientists have discovered two common genetic mutations in people of European ancestry, which affect the production of several hormones controlling our appetite. The mutations have a significant effect on ... | |
 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 ... | |
15 human genomes each week July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has sequenced the equivalent of 300 human genomes in just over six months. The Institute has just reached the staggering total of 1,000,000,000,000 letters of genetic code that will be ... | |
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