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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
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Since the dawn of time, life expectancy has gone up and down depending on several factors. Neanderthals, for instance, had an average life expectancy of 20 years. The short life span was likely caused by a way of life that was much more dangerous than we now know. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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A gene called Diaphanous (or Dia) has just been uncovered as a major regulator during embryo formation. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., a physician-geneticist and leader of the Human Genome Project, has been named recipient of the inaugural Inamori Ethics Prize from the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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Data presented at this week's 28th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) suggest the potential of a valuable impact of using biomarkers to decrease the need for biopsies and personalize transplant patient care. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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Researchers from around the world have been carrying out paternity tests regularly. Samples are generally collected from mouth and saliva cells to carry out the DNA study. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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In the event of an outbreak or a bioterrorist attack, fast identification of the genetic changes responsible for virulence or drug resistance is significant to mounting an effective response. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have identified a gene that is responsible for the division and movement of marrow-derived, blood-forming stem cells, a finding that could have major implications for the future of bone marrow and blood cell transplantation. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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A little variation in a gene known as CHI3L1 increases susceptibility to asthma, bronchial hyperresponsiveness and decline in lung function, researchers report early online in the New England Journal of Medicine. (The printed version will appear in the April 17 issue). |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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A network of supportive friends and colleagues can make genetic counseling less depressing and anxiety provoking, according to a recent study from Norway. |
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
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Congenital myasthenias are inherited disorders characterized by muscle weakness caused by mutations in genes that contain the info for making proteins that are involved in the communication between nerves and muscle cells. |
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are genes which make valuable elements that regulate a wide variety of processes in plants, animals and humans. MiRNAs are considered to be promising diagnostic and therapeutic candidates for the treatment of human diseases. |
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
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A team of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and the Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion) in Haifa has developed a technique to detect the ancestry of disease genes in hybrid, or mixed, human populations. |
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
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Scientists are beginning to develop a clearer picture of what makes some people stand head and shoulders above the rest. |
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
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What do you learn by looking at the spines of hundreds of Finnish twins? If you are the international team of researchers behind the Twin Spine Study, you find compelling proof that back pain problems may be more a matter of genetics than physical strain. |
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
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Navigenics, a genetic health services company, announced a new study of genetic predisposition study. The Mayo Clinic study will test how patients understand and use info provided by a Navigenics genetic risk assessment. |
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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The search for cancer genes is increasingly a matter of molecular "To Tell the Truth," as scientists seek to distinguish genes indeed involved in the disease from those that are imposters. |
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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In 1911, the influential geneticist Charles Davenport published Heredity in Relation to Eugenics, advancing his ideas of how genetics would enhance society in the 20th century. It became a college textbook and a foundation for the widespread eugenics movement in the United States. |
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have found that infrequent mutations in 3 genes contribute to blood pressure variation in the common population. |
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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In the neuromuscular disease called spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA, a protein deficiency caused by a single gene mutation leads to serious damage in growing nerve cells and the muscles they control. |
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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Recent research at Yale provided a glimpse of the ancient mechanism that helped diversify our genomes; it illuminated a relationship between gene processing in humans and the most primitive organisms by creating the first crystal structure of a crucial self-splicing region of RNA. |
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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Recent research at Yale provided a glimpse of the ancient mechanism that helped diversify our genomes; it illuminated a relationship between gene processing in humans and the most primitive organisms by creating the first crystal structure of a crucial self-splicing region of RNA. |
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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Yale University's Scott A. Strobel, professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, has been awarded the prestigious Schering-Plough Research Institute Award. |
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Sunday, 06 April 2008 |
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Yale University researchers report in the journal Nature Genetics that they have discovered that infrequent genetic variants can be associated with a dramatically lower risk of developing high blood pressure in the common population. |
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Sunday, 06 April 2008 |
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A genetic disorder that can cause a fatal rise in body temperature in some patients undergoing common anesthesia may hold the key to a cure for heat stroke, according to research published in the April 4 edition of the journal Cell. |
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Sunday, 06 April 2008 |
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Penn State scientists are the first to observe in living cells a key step in the creation of adenine and guanine, 2 of the four building blocks that comprise DNA. Also called purines, the 2 building blocks are important for cell replication. |
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Sunday, 06 April 2008 |
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A biological process taught to every pupil studying GCSE science has just become a small more complicated thanks to a new discovery just published. |
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Sunday, 06 April 2008 |
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A team of researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), and somewhere have described a possible reason why some studies have been unable to copy associations between genes and traits - namely that the strength of a gene/trait association might vary... |
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Saturday, 05 April 2008 |
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Cardiff University is contributing to the first genome project to assist conservation efforts for an endangered species. Researchers in the Cardiff School of Biosciences will work with international colleagues on the 'Giant Panda Genome Project'. |
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Friday, 04 April 2008 |
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Reshaping of the DNA scaffolding that supports and controls the expression of genes in the brain may play a major role in the alcohol withdrawal symptoms, specifically anxiety, that make it so hard for alcoholics to stop using alcohol. |
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