News tagged with deafness genes


Scaling the wall of deafness

Scaling the wall of deafness

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Despite modern medicine, one in 1,000 American babies are born deaf. The numbers increase markedly with age, with more than 50% of seniors in the United States experiencing some form of hearing loss.





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Gene discovery reveals a critical protein's function in hearing

Gene discovery reveals a critical protein's function in hearing

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Discovery of a deafness-causing gene defect in mice has helped identify a new protein that protects sensory cells in the ear, according to a study led by University of Iowa researchers. The findings, which ...


Gene linked to a rare form of progressive hearing loss in males is identified

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A gene associated with a rare form of progressive deafness in males has been identified by an international team of researchers funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. The gene, PRPS1, ...


Scientists identify genetic cause for type of deafness

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute has discovered a genetic cause of progressive hearing loss. The findings will help scientists better understand the nature of age-related decline in hearing and ...


Adding a genetic supertool: Genome Analyzer fuels research dreams and tomorrow's cures

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

To identify the hemophilia mutation that affected Queen Victoria and her European relatives, scientific detectives used a cutting-edge "deep sequencing tool." Able to trace rare genetic disease mutations, the tool can turn ...


New insights into progressive hearing loss

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Apr 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In parallel studies in human and mouse, two groups of researchers have come to the same conclusion: that a new kind of gene is associated with progressive hearing loss. The new gene - called a microRNA - is a tiny fragment ...


New mouse mutant contains clue to progressive hearing loss

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created Oct 31, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers have defined a mutation in the mouse genome that mimics progressive hearing loss in humans. A team from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, working with colleagues in Munich and Padua, found ...


Genes that control cell death fingered in age-related hearing loss

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 16, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Several genes that play a role in how our body's cells normally auto-destruct may play a role in age-related hearing loss, according to research published online in the journal Apoptosis – a journal devoted to the topic ...


Scientists discover molecular defect involved in hearing loss

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have elucidated the action of a protein, harmonin, which is involved in the mechanics of hearing. This finding sheds new light on the workings of mechanotransduction, the process ...


Search for blood pressure secrets reveals a surprising new syndrome

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 3

Yale researchers investigating the genetic causes of blood pressure variation have identified a previously undescribed syndrome associated with seizures, a lack of coordination, developmental delay and hearing loss.


Killing the messenger RNA -- But which one?

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created Feb 22, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Tiny molecules called microRNAs, only 19 to 21 nucleotides in length, are able to effectively silence sometimes large sets of genes. They do this by specifically binding to and neutralizing another form of RNA called messenger ...



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