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Lung cancer oncogene holds key to turning off cancer stem cells
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Scientists at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida have found that the lung cancer oncogene PKCiota is necessary for the proliferation of lung cancer stem cells. These stem cells are rare and powerful master cells that manufacture ...
New therapeutic strategy could target toxic protein in most patients with Huntington's disease
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have designed tiny RNA molecules that shut off the gene that causes Huntington's disease without damaging that gene's healthy counterpart, which maintains the health and vitality ...
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Researchers identify gene associated with muscular dystrophy-related vision problems
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Skeletal muscle disease and vision deficits might seem unrelated, but a frog model of muscular dystrophy shows it is not such a leap.
Gene packaging tells story of cancer development
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Dec 04, 2008 |
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To decipher how cancer develops, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center investigators say researchers must take a closer look at the packaging.
Abnormal brain circuits may prevent movement disorder
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Specific changes in brain pathways may counteract genetic mutations for the movement disorder dystonia, according to new research in the August 5 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Few people who inherit dystonia genes ...
Mucous breakthrough in mice holds promise for cystic fibrosis
Jul 29, 2008 |
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A London, Canada scientist studying cystic fibrosis (CF) has successfully corrected the defect which causes the overproduction of intestinal mucous in mice. This discovery by Dr. Richard Rozmahel, a scientist with the Lawson ...
Research sheds light on cause of Down syndrome and other genetic disorders
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Scientists have a better understanding of what causes an abnormal number of chromosomes in offspring, a condition called aneuploidy that encompasses the most common genetic disorders in humans, such as Down syndrome, and ...
Abnormal DNA repair genes may predict pancreatic cancer risk
Jan 15, 2009 |
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Abnormalities in genes that repair mistakes in DNA replication may help identify people who are at high risk of developing pancreatic cancer, a research team from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reports ...
Study of human tissue reveals potential colon cancer biomarker
Jan 16, 2009 |
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Cincinnati scientists have identified a new biomarker that could help predict a person's risk of developing colon cancer and how aggressive it may become.
Bone-cell control of energy generation is regulated by the protein Atf4
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Bone cells known as osteoblasts were recently shown to have a role in controlling the biochemical reactions that generate energy via secretion of the molecule osteocalcin. Gerard Karsenty and colleagues, at Columbia University ...
First gene therapy for heart failure offered at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia
Jun 18, 2008 |
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[B]NYC's only medical center offering promising therapy as part of CUPID clinical trial[/B] Could injecting a gene into a patient with severe heart failure reverse their disabling and life-threatening condition? Physician-scientists are ...
New cancer gene discovered
Oct 13, 2009 |
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A new cancer gene has been discovered by a research group at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The gene causes an insidious form of glandular cancer usually in the head and neck and in women ...
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