News tagged with chromosome type

Patterns of chromosome abnormality: The key to cancer?

A healthy genome is characterized by 23 pairs of chromosomes, and even a small change in this structure — such as an extra copy of a single chromosome — can lead to severe physical impairment. So it's no surprise ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Testosterone concentrations in men affected by genetic makeup

Genetics play an important role in the variation in, and risk of, low testosterone concentrations in men. A study by the CHARGE Sex Hormone Consortium, published in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics on Thursday, 6th Oc ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Searching for the soul of the genome (w/ Video)

The discovery that a "gene desert" on chromosome 9 was a hotspot for coronary artery disease (CAD) risk was among the highlights of findings produced recently by genome-wide association studies, which compare the genomes ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Genetic health risks in children of assisted reproductive technology

More than three million children have been born as a result of assisted reproductive technologies since the birth of the first "test tube baby" in 1978. While the majority of these children are healthy and normal, as a group ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Cure of ADPKD by selection for spontaneous genetic repair events in Pkd1-mutated iPS cells

A research group including Kyoto University researchers demonstrates that mouse iPS cells, in which genetic correction occurs spontaneously through mitotic recombination, is selectable from the population of genetically mutated ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New understanding of DNA repair could eventually lead to cancer therapy

A research group in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta is hoping its latest discovery could one day be used to develop new therapies that target certain types of cancers.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study sheds light on genetics of rice metabolism

A large-scale study analyzing metabolic compounds in rice grains conducted by researchers at the RIKEN Plant Science Center (PSC) and their collaborators has identified 131 rice metabolites and clarified the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Without second wave of brown fat, young mice can't live without mama

For all those who have wondered where they'd be without their mothers, a study reported in the February Cell Metabolism puts a whole new spin on the question. Mice whose mothers pass along a mutant copy of a single imprin ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Genetic variant increases risk of common type stroke

A genetic variant that increases the risk of a common type of stroke has been identified by scientists in a study published online in Nature Genetics today. This is one of the few genetic variants to date t ...

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Study explores possible 'safe and effective' anti-cancer therapy

(Medical Xpress) -- New findings discovered by an international research team, which includes a professor from Western University, may lead to a safe and effective anti-cancer therapy.    A report published online toda ...

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created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Identical twins reveal mechanisms behind aging

In a recent study led by Uppsala University, the researchers compared the DNA of identical (monozygotic) twins of different age. They could show that structural modifications of the DNA, where large or small DNA segments ...

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created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chaos in the cell's command center

A defective operating system is never a good thing. Like computers, our cells depend on operating systems to drive normal functions. Gene expression programs comprise the software code our cells rely on, with each cell type ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

High-resolution mapping of the 3D organization of chromosomes

In collaboration with researchers from the Weizmann Institute in Israel, a team from the Institut de Génétique Humaine (CNRS, France) has, for the first time, revealed the detailed three-dimensional ...

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created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study defines a new genetic subtype of lung cancer

A report from investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center has defined the role of a recently identified gene abnormality in a deadly form of lung cancer. Tumors driven by rearrangements in the ...

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