Archive for the ‘Genetics’ Category
Friday, July 25th, 2008
A multi-institutional team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has developed a powerful new tool for genomic research and medicine - a robust method for generating synthetic enzymes that can target particular DNA sequences for inactivation or repair. In the July 25 issue of Molecular Cell, the researchers describe ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Scientists at Harvard University and the University of Texas at Austin have found that genetic evolution is strongly shaped by genes' efforts to prevent or tolerate errors in protein production.Their study also suggests that the cost of errors in protein production may lie in the malformed proteins themselves, rather than ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Genetic evolution is strongly shaped by genes' efforts to prevent or tolerate errors in the production of proteins, scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University have found.Their study also suggests that the cost of errors in protein production may lie in the malformed proteins themselves, rather ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
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 generate synthetic enzymes that can target and manipulate DNA sequences for inactivation or repair.The potential for discovery is great, ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
The Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will lead a six-year, $16 million international research collaboration dedicated to understanding inherited forms of Alzheimer's disease. The National Institute on Aging (NIA) will fund the project.Forms of Alzheimer's disease linked to inherited mutations are ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Interleukin Genetics, Inc. (Amex: ILI), announced the launch of an enhanced test report format and information package for the company's Heart Health Genetic Test. The test is currently marketed under the brand name Gensona(R) Heart Health Genetic Test by ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
While it's no secret that proper nutrition usually means a healthier pet, advances in understanding the dog and cat genomes have opened new doors for veterinarians and scientists who are constantly looking at how nutrition can help improve the health and quality of lives of our pets. Their efforts are ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Neurological experts from across the U.S. and other countries including a nationally renowned researcher from Rush University Medical Center will discuss the latest findings in basic and clinical research for Fragile X at the 11th International Fragile X Conference, to be held July 23-27 in St. Louis. Families with children ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
A severe complication of the Marfan syndrome is that the aorta may split and be torn apart. The patient can be protected if the syndrome is diagnosed and treated in good time. In the current edition of the Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2008; 105[27]: 483-91), the human geneticist ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Psychiatry has begun the laborious effort of preparing the DSM-V, the new iteration of its diagnostic manual. In so doing, it once again wrestles with the task set by Carl Linnaeus, to "cleave nature at its joints." However, these "joints," the boundaries between psychiatric disorders, such as that between bipolar ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
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 predisposition to both disorders. A new study scheduled for publication in the July 15th issue of Biological Psychiatry ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Evolution may provide us with the most abundant phenotypes (observablegenetic characteristics) rather than the fittest, according to a newtheory published on July 18 in the open-access journal PLoSComputational Biology. That is, natural selection may beoptimal for choosing the most fit organism of the moment, butevolutionary biologists question if the process ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Some people may be naturally resistant to infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The results of a study conducted by Dr. Nicole Bernard of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) bring us closer to a genetic explanation. Her study findings were published on July ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Scientists have made a step towards understanding how genes and theenvironment influence social behavior by learning about the numbers andtypes of genes that control social organization in fire ant colonies.These results are published in an article released on July 17, 2008 inthe open access journal PLoS Genetics. The fire ant ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
US and UK scientists investigating a gene variant that protects people of African descent from a serious type of malaria, have discovered that it may increase their vulnerability to HIV infection by as much as 40 per cent, because of the way it allows the HIV virus to attach to ...
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