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Top notch decisions in the developing airways bring insights into lung disease
Jun 08, 2009 |
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In the normal lung, the airways are lined by a balanced mixture of ciliated, secretory and neuroendocrine cells which perform functions as diverse as air humidification, detoxification, and clearance of environmental particles. ...
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Breakthrough model for human cancer may improve development of cancer drugs
Apr 06, 2009 |
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AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company leveraging breakthrough discoveries in cancer biology to discover, develop and commercialize targeted oncology therapies, today announced findings from its novel human-in-mouse ...
New reagents for genomic engineering of mouse models to understand human disease
Aug 19, 2009 |
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A new study published in Disease Models and Mechanisms, reports new tools for generating specifically targeted genetic mutations in bacteria, mammalian cells and mice. The new recombinase, Dre, is similar to its predecessor, Cre, b ...
Study Investigates DNA of Sleep
Jun 24, 2009 |
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A new study at the University of Leicester aims to investigate the DNA of sleep.
Mathematical models reveal how organisms transcend the sum of their genes
Feb 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Molecular and cellular biologists have made tremendous scientific advances by dissecting apart the functions of individual genes, proteins, and pathways. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...
Cats' eye diseases genetically linked to diseases in humans
Mar 04, 2009 |
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About one in 3,500 people are affected with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a disease of the retina's visual cells that eventually leads to blindness. Now, a University of Missouri researcher has identified a genetic ...
No crystal ball necessary: New tool IDs predictable economic variables
Jul 21, 2009 |
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You don't need a crystal ball to tell you what is going to happen next in the economy. You need a statistical model. A new method from North Carolina State University can help researchers determine which economic variables ...
Discovery could improve hepatitis C treatment
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers are part of an international team that has discovered a genetic variation that could identify those people infected with hepatitis C who are most likely to benefit ...
Umbilical stem cells may help recover lost vision for those with corneal disease
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) may help in the recovery of lost vision for patients with corneal scarring.
Researchers show efficacy of gene therapy in mouse models of Huntington's disease
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have shown that a highly specific intrabody (an antibody fragment that works against a target inside a cell) is capable of stalling the development of Huntington's ...
Are we selling personalized medicine before its time?
Feb 06, 2009 |
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We may be a long way off from using genetics to reliably gauge our risks for specific diseases, say researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health in a study published on Feb. 5 in the online ...
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