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New risk factor for second-most-common form of early-onset dementia
Feb 16, 2010 |
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Examining brain tissue from over 500 individuals in 11 countries, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and colleagues found a new ...
Study finds genetic link between misery and death
Feb 24, 2010 |
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In ongoing work to identify how genes interact with social environments to impact human health, UCLA researchers have discovered what they describe as a biochemical link between misery and death. In addition, they found a ...
Food allergy-related disorder linked to master allergy gene
Mar 07, 2010 |
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Scientists have identified a region of a human chromosome that is associated with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), a recently recognized allergic disease. People with EoE frequently have difficulty eating or may be allergic ...
Examining alcohol use disorders through gene networks instead of individual genes
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Alcohol use disorders (AUDs) are influenced by multiple genetic, environmental and behavioral factors, which makes it difficult to find individual genetic markers to help identify those at risk of developing AUDs. This study ...
Human Genome Project is 10: Where are we now?
Mar 02, 2010 |
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"It's hard to think back and remember how we worked then. We were scrabbling around in the dark," says Professor Mark McCarthy of the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism [OCDEM], recalling ...
Smoking significantly increases risk of aneurysm in people with certain genes
Feb 26, 2010 |
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For people who carry common gene variants, cigarette smoking greatly increases the risk that a blood vessel in the brain will weaken and balloon out - called an aneurysm - which could be life-threatening if it ruptures, according ...
Simple math explains dramatic beak shape variation in Darwin's finches
Feb 22, 2010 |
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From how massive humpbacks glide through the sea with ease to the efficient way fungal spores fly, applied mathematicians at Harvard have excavated the equations behind a variety of complex phenomena.
Cloned sorghum is aluminum tolerant
Feb 23, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Leon Kochian and colleagues have cloned a unique sorghum gene that is being used to develop sorghum lines that can withstand toxic levels of aluminum in the soil, a consequence of acidic soils.
Random fluctuations give rise to odd genetic phenomenon
Feb 17, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For years, biologists have wondered how it is possible that not every person who carries a mutated gene expresses the trait or condition associated with the mutation. This common but poorly ...
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