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Researchers identify cause for severe pediatric epilepsy disorder
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that convulsive seizures in a form of severe epilepsy are generated, not on the brain's surface as expected, but from ...
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New research findings may enable earlier diagnosis of uterine cancer
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Cancer of the uterus (womb) is the commonest gynaecological malignancy in the West. Research carried out at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has now identified a gene that may simplify future diagnosis.
Slimming gene regulates body fat
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of Bonn, Germany, have discovered a previously unknown fruit fly gene that controls the metabolism of fat. Larvae in which this gene is defective lose their entire fat reserves. Therefore the ...
New technique to study the genetics of breast cancer
Nov 11, 2008 |
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A new technique to study genetic changes that can lead to breast cancer could be one step closer.
Scientists find new agent to fight genetic disorders -- Zorro-Locked Nucleic Acid
Apr 30, 2007 |
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A study to appear in the June 2007 issue of The FASEB Journal describes a new agent, called "Zorro-LNA," which has the potential to stop genetic disorders in their tracks. In the study, researchers from the Karolinska Institute ...
Research on pigs may lead to answers for human male infertility
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Feb 09, 2009 |
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In the late 1990s the Finnish Yorkshire pig population was threatened by a genetic defect which spread at an alarming rate and led to infertility. The defective KPL2 gene in porcine chromosome 16 caused pig spermatozoa to ...
Study shows how defective DNA repair triggers 2 neurological diseases
Jan 15, 2009 |
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Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have teased apart the biological details distinguishing two related neurological diseases—ataxia telangiectasia-like disease (ATLD) and Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS).
Discovery of new cause of mental retardation simplifies search for treatments
Jan 24, 2008 |
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Two to three children in 100 are born with a mental handicap. This can be caused by a genetic defect, but in 80% of the cases scientists do not know which genes are responsible. Now, VIB researchers connected to the Katholieke ...
New 'schizophrenia gene' prompts researchers to test potential drug target
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Johns Hopkins scientists report having used a commercially available drug to successfully "rescue" animal brain cells that they had intentionally damaged by manipulating a newly discovered gene that links susceptibility genes ...
Tumor mutations can predict chemo success
Aug 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New work by MIT cancer biologists shows that the interplay between two key genes that are often defective in tumors determines how cancer cells respond to chemotherapy.
Stabilizing cancer-fighting p53 can also shield a metastasis-promoter
May 22, 2008 |
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Efforts to protect the tumor-suppressor p53 could just as easily shelter a mutant version of the protein, causing cancer cells to thrive and spread rather than die, according to research by scientists at The University of ...
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