News tagged with clock genes
Missing or mutated 'clock' gene linked to vascular disease
Mar 25, 2009 |
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The circadian clocks that set the rhythmic motion of our bodies for wakeful days and sleepy nights can also set us up for vascular disease when broken, Medical College of Georgia researchers say.
Siestas Among the Drosophilae
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Jan 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Isaac Edery is concerned with biological clocks, internal mechanisms that enable virtually all plants and animals to behave in rhythmic biological cycles known as circadian rhythms.
Molecular basis and regulation of circadian rhythms in plants
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Jul 01, 2008 |
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Dr. C. Robertson McClung and his colleagues are investigating the genetic basis and molecular mechanisms of circadian cycling and regulation in plants. Dr. McClung, of the Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, ...
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Longevity tied to genes that preserve tips of chromosomes
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A team led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found a clear link between living to 100 and inheriting a hyperactive version of an enzyme that rebuilds telomeres - the tip ends ...
WISE Is Chilling Out
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are busy cooling the science instrument on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The spacecraft is scheduled to blast into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ...
Microbial menagerie: Junk food binge alters community of microbes in the gut in less than a day
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Switching from a low-fat, plant-based diet to one high in fat and sugar alters the collection of microbes living in the gut in less than a day, with obesity-linked microbes suddenly thriving, according to ...
Largest-ever database for liver proteins may lead to treatments for hepatitis
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Scientists at a group of 11 research centers in China are reporting for the first time assembly of the largest-ever collection of data about the proteins produced by genes in a single human organ.
Researchers 'notch' a victory toward new kind of cancer drug
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Scientists have devised an innovative way to disarm a key protein considered to be "undruggable," meaning that all previous efforts to develop a drug against it have failed. Their discovery, published in the November 12 issue ...
Why can't chimps speak? Study links evolution of single gene to human capacity for language
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If humans are genetically related to chimps, why did our brains develop the innate ability for language and speech while theirs did not?
Novel mouse gene reduces major pathologies associated with Alzheimer's disease
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A new study reveals that a previously undiscovered mouse gene reduces the two major pathological perturbations commonly associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The research, published by Cell Press in the November 12 issue ...
Researchers mobilizing global resources to test new treatments for severe H1N1 infection
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An important, ground-breaking initiative is unfolding in the global critical care community in response to the H1N1 pandemic.
Researchers find a weak link in cancer cell armor
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Professor Robert Weiss has found that when two particular genes are inhibited, cancer cells are destroyed at a greater rate. The study is published in the Nov. 9 issue of PNAS.
Discovery in worms points to more targeted cancer treatment
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Researchers at Queen's University have found a link between two genes involved in cancer formation in humans, by examining the genes in worms. The groundbreaking discovery provides a foundation for how tumor-forming ...
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