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Show me your DNA and I'll tell you your eye color
Mar 09, 2009 |
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More and more information is being gathered about how human genes influence medically relevant traits, such as the propensity to develop a certain disease. The ultimate goal is to predict whether or not a given trait will ...
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Genes identified may help breast cancer diagnosis
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Researchers at Keele University, Germany, have identified two genes which may help improve the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer patients.
The protein modifier SUMO helps set apart females and males
Sep 02, 2009 |
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One way in which men and women differ is in their expression of liver proteins that control a large number of whole-body processes such as energy generation and lipid and steroid hormone production and turnover. Now, Walter ...
Genes that drive you to drink (but don't make you an alcoholic)
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Your genetic make up may predispose you to drink more but may not increase your genetic risk for alcoholism (alcohol dependence). Research published in the open access journal, BMC Biology, pinpoints genetic pathways and ge ...
Junk DNA may prove invaluable in quest for gene therapies
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Scientists have identified how a protein enables sections of so-called junk DNA to be cut and pasted within genetic code - a finding which could speed development of gene therapies.
Pushmi-pullyu of B-cell development discovered
Jun 25, 2009 |
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James Hagman, Ph.D., professor of immunology at National Jewish Health and his colleagues have identified two "molecular motors" that work in opposing directions to control the development of B cells in the immune system.
Genes controlling insulin can alter timing of biological clock
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Many of the genes that regulate insulin also alter the timing of the circadian clock, a new study has found.
'Moonlighting' molecules discovered
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Since the completion of the human genome sequence, a question has baffled researchers studying gene control: How is it that humans, being far more complex than the lowly yeast, do not proportionally contain in our genome ...
Drunken fruit flies help scientists find potential drug target for alcoholism
Nov 03, 2009 |
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A group of drunken fruit flies have helped researchers from North Carolina State and Boston universities identify entire networks of genes—also present in humans—that play a key role in alcohol drinking behavior. This discovery, ...
Transgenic songbirds provide new tool to understand the brain
Sep 29, 2009 |
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A new genetic tool will enable scientists to study vocal learning and neurogenesis at the molecular level in songbirds.
Discovery in worms points to more targeted cancer treatment
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Researchers at Queen's University have found a link between two genes involved in cancer formation in humans, by examining the genes in worms. The groundbreaking discovery provides a foundation for how tumor-forming ...
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