Archive: 12/09/2007
New study reveals for first time how BRCA1 mutations cause breast cancer
An international team of researchers led by Columbia University Medical Center’s Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center and Sweden’s Lund University has, for the first time, revealed how mutations in the ...
Dec 09, 2007 |
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Neurons in the frontal lobe may be responsible for rational decision-making
You study the menu at a restaurant and decide to order the steak rather than the salmon. But when the waiter tells you about the lobster special, you decide lobster trumps steak. Without reconsidering the salmon, you place ...
Dec 09, 2007 |
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In fruit flies, homosexuality is biological but not hard-wired
While the biological basis for homosexuality remains a mystery, a team of neurobiologists reports they may have closed in on an answer -- by a nose.
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Dec 09, 2007 |
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Study finds first-ever genetic animal model of autism
By introducing a gene mutation in mice, investigators have created what they believe to be the first accurate model of autism not associated with a broader neuropsychiatric syndrome, according to research presented at the ...
Dec 09, 2007 |
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Studies elucidate genetic links between cancer and schizophrenia
A series of studies presented today at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) annual meeting elucidates evidence that there is a genetic link between schizophrenia and cancer, providing a surprising possible ...
Dec 09, 2007 |
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