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The newest of the new in gene therapy: 'Tag and target and exchange'

A combination of two techniques promises to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of experimental gene therapies, while also reducing potential side effects says a new research report published in the December 2011 issue ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Researchers use yeast to help piece together human genome sequence jigsaw

Using yeast as a model, a team of Spanish researchers has made predictions about how individuals differ from one another by analysing genome sequences.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Report: IBM supercomputer is the most energy efficient in the world

An IBM supercomputer is the most energy efficient supercomputer in the world, according to the latest Supercomputing 'Green500 List' announced by Green500.org. A prototype of IBM's next generation Blue Gene/Q supercomputer ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Scientists produce new QC tool for microbial genomes (w/ Video)

More than a thousand microbial genomes have been sequenced at various sequencing centers in the past 15 years to better understand their roles in tasks ranging from bioenergy to health to environmental cleanup. Conservative ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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Omega-3 fatty acid on trial: Study to evaluate long-term effects on intelligence, behavior

University of Kansas researchers John Colombo and Susan Carlson have been awarded $2.5 million for the next five years of a 10-year, double-blind randomized controlled trial to determine whether prenatal nutritional supplementation ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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Manipulating genes with hidden TALENs

(PhysOrg.com) -- A better understanding of gene function in model plant and animal systems could be used to develop useful traits in livestock and crop plants, and might someday lead to developments in stem ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Transformational fruit fly genome catalog completed

Scientists searching for the genomics version of the holy grail – more insight into predicting how an animal's genes affect physical or behavioral traits – now have a reference manual that should ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gene therapy for inherited blindness succeeds in patients' other eye

Gene therapy for congenital blindness has taken another step forward, as researchers further improved vision in three adult patients previously treated in one eye. After receiving the same treatment in their ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Metabolic profiles essential for personalizing cancer therapy

One way to tackle a tumor is to take aim at the metabolic reactions that fuel their growth. But a report in the February Cell Metabolism shows that one metabolism-targeted cancer therapy will not fit all. That means that m ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Treatment for tuberculosis can be guided by patients' genetics

A gene that influences the inflammatory response to infection may also predict the effectiveness of drug treatment for a deadly form of tuberculosis.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists use an old theory to discover new targets in the fight against breast cancer

Reviving a theory first proposed in the late 1800s that the development of organs in the normal embryo and the development of cancers are related, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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New study finds individual differences in anthrax susceptibility

Susceptibility to anthrax toxin is a heritable genetic trait that may vary tremendously among individuals, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find clues to common birth defect in gene expression data

Researchers at MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC), The Jackson Laboratory and other institutes have uncovered 27 new candidate genes for congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), a common and often deadly birth defect.

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Discovery predicts patient sensitivity to important drug target in deadly brain cancer

A recent discovery by Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) scientists enables the prediction of patient sensitivity to proposed drug therapies for glioblastoma – the most common and most aggressive malignant brain tumor ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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