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Scientists Find Cells Coordinate Gene Activity with FM Bursts

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created Oct 01, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- How a cell achieves the coordinated control of a number of genes at the same time, a process that's necessary for it to regulate its own behavior and development, has long puzzled scientists.





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Smoking may now be considered an established risk factor for Lou Gehrig's disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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While previous studies have indicated a "probable" connection between smoking and ALS, a new study published in the Nov. 17, 2009 issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, states that s ...


Study links genetic variation to individual empathy, stress levels

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Researchers have discovered a genetic variation that may contribute to how empathetic a human is, and how that person reacts to stress. In the first study of its kind, a variation in the hormone/neurotransmitter oxytocin's ...


New combination therapy could deliver powerful punch to breast cancer

New combination therapy could deliver powerful punch to breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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A powerful new breast cancer treatment could result from packaging one of the newer drugs that inhibits cancer's hallmark wild growth with another that blocks a primordial survival technique in which the cancer ...


Investigating muscle repair, scientists follow their noses

Investigating muscle repair, scientists follow their noses

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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When muscle cells need repair, they use odor-detecting tools found in the nose to start the process, researchers have discovered.


Study shows link between influenza virus and fever

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One feature of the "new influenza" is a sudden rise in temperature. Up to now it was not exactly understood how this reaction occurs. Scientists at the University of Bonn and the Technical University of Munich, Germany, have ...


How cells tolerate DNA damage -- start signal for cell survival program identified

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Cancer researchers of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, have gained new insights into how cells react to DNA damage. Dr. Michael Stilmann, Dr. Michael Hinz and Professor Claus Scheidereit ...


Largest gene study of childhood IBD identifies 5 new genes

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In the largest, most comprehensive genetic analysis of childhood-onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an international research team has identified five new gene regions, including one involved in a biological pathway ...


Postmortem genetic tests after sudden death may provide less expensive way to identify risk

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created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Targeted postmortem testing to identify genetic mutations associated with sudden unexplained death (SUD) is an effective and less expensive way to determine risk to relatives than comprehensive cardiac testing of first degree ...


Researchers find potential treatment for Huntington's disease (w/ Video)

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created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research, the University of British Columbia's Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics and the University of California, San Diego have found that normal synaptic activity ...


'Cross-talk' mechanism contributes to colorectal cancer

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created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health have identified a molecular mechanism that allows two powerful signaling pathways to interact and begin a process leading to colorectal ...



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