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 ... | |
Researchers identify gene responsible for rare childhood disease July 24, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
The chromosomal abnormality that causes a rare, but often fatal, disorder that affects infants has been identified by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, who happened to treat two young ... | |
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 ... | |
Consortium develops new method to manipulate genetic material July 24, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
A multi-institutional team of researchers, including scientists at the University of Minnesota Medical School, have developed a powerful tool for genomic research and medicine. The robust method will allow researchers to ... | |
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 ... | |
Researchers discover a gene that regulates and blocks ovulation July 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 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 ... | |
Researchers find a partially shared genetic profile between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder July 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 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 ... | |
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