Common root for breast cancer, heart disease?
Women who are at risk for breast cancer may also be at greater risk for heart disease, new research has [...]
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Why Yamanaka Will Win the Nobel Prize
Stem cells are almost magical in their power. It is possible to turn stem cells into all other cell types [...]
Scientists find gene for love of the sea
What did Thor Heyerdahl, Captain Ahab, and Odysseus have in common? They all may have shared a common variant of [...]
Scripps Research study points to liver, not brain, as origin of Alzheimer’s plaques
LA JOLLA, CA — March 3, 2011 — Unexpected results from a Scripps Research Institute and ModGene, LLC study could completely alter scientists’ ideas about Alzheimer’s disease — pointing to the liver instead of the brain as the source of the “am…
Researchers pinpoint genetic pathways involved in breast cancer
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Using recent advances in genomics, researchers have uncovered a genetic pathway that affects the development of breast cancer, work that could help predict which patients are at risk of relapse for the disease.
By st…
Scientists identify susceptibility factor for bipolar disorder
A new study provides fascinating insight into the genetic basis of bipolar disorder, a highly heritable mood disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of mania and depression. The research, published by Cell Press online February 24 in the Americ…
Type 2 diabetes linked to single gene mutation in 1 in 10 patients
A multinational study has identified a key gene mutation responsible for type 2 diabetes in nearly 10 percent of patients of white European ancestry.
The study, which originated in Italy and was validated at UCSF, found that defects in the HMGA1 g…
Protein and microRNA block cellular transition vital to metastasis
HOUSTON – Like a bounty hunter returning escapees to custody, a cancer-fighting gene converts organ cells that change into highly mobile stem cells back to their original, stationary state, researchers report online at Nature Cell Biology.
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New study finds molecular mechanisms that control Rb2/p130 gene expression in lung cancer
Despite innumerable studies on lung cancer, many aspects of the disease have yet to be understood, including the role played by the retinoblastoma-related protein Rb2/p130 in the evolution of the disease.
In a new study, researchers from the Sba…
Missing sugar molecule raises diabetes risk in humans
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego say an evolutionary gene mutation that occurred in human millions of years ago and our subsequent inability to produce a specific kind o…
Just like cars, developmental genes have more than 1 way to stop
EAST LANSING, Mich. — There’s more than one way to silence gene activity, according to a Michigan State University researcher.
Downregulating activity is how healthy genes should shift out of their development cycle. The results, published in t…
New research suggests that obesity and diabetes are a downside of human evolution
As if the recent prediction that half of all Americans will have diabetes or pre-diabetes by the year 2020 isn’t alarming enough, a new genetic discovery published online in the FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) provides a disturbing explanation…
Rare gene glitch may hold clues for schizophrenia — NIH-funded study
Scientists are eyeing a rare genetic glitch for clues to improved treatments for some people with schizophrenia — even though they found the mutation in only one third of 1 percent of patients.
In the study, funded in part by the National …
Collisions of protein machines cause DNA replication derailment
Scientists have published results that will forever change the way researchers view the interplay between gene expression, DNA replication and the prevention of DNA damage.
DNA damage, if not kept in check, can lead to many problems including can…
Discovery of new gene mutation in schizophrenia offers a new target for drug therapies
In a major advance for schizophrenia research, an international team of scientists led by the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and involving Trinity College Dublin researchers has identified a gene mutation strongly linked to s…
Simpler way of making proteins could lead to new nanomedicine agents
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Researchers have developed a simple method of making short protein chains with spiral structures that can also dissolve in water, two desirable traits not often found together. Such structures could have applications as buildi…
Vaccine made with synthetic gene protects against deadly pneumonia
February 22, 2011 — (BRONX, NY) — Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed an experimental vaccine that appears to protect against an increasingly common and particularly deadly form of pneumococc…
Neisseria meningitidis disseminates itself by sending out ‘scouts’
Although, in the majority of cases, the localized presence of Neisseria meningitidis in the throat has no consequence, it can sometimes lead to meningitis or septicaemia. The seriousness of these two infections is driving researchers from arou…
