News tagged with genetic response
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.
Feb 07, 2012 |
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'Goldilocks' gene could determine best treatment for tuberculosis patients
Tuberculosis patients may receive treatments in the future according to what version they have of a single 'Goldilocks' gene, says an international research team from Oxford University, King's College London, Vietnam and ...
Feb 02, 2012 |
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Decaffeinated coffee preserves memory function by improving brain energy metabolism
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have discovered that decaffeinated coffee may improve brain energy metabolism associated with type 2 diabetes. This brain dysfunction is a known risk factor for dementia and ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Cancer drugs help the hardest cases of Pompe disease
Kids with Pompe disease fail because of a missing enzyme, GAA, that leads to dangerous sugar build-up, which affects muscles and movement. An enzyme replacement treatment pioneered at Duke University has saved many lives, ...
Jan 05, 2012 |
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Cell membrane proteins could provide targets for broader vaccines
Vaccines with broader reach might be made by stimulating specialized immune cells to recognize foreign cell membrane proteins that are shared across bacterial species, say researchers from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh ...
Dec 22, 2011 |
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Study details how dengue infection hits harder the second time around
One of the most vexing challenges in the battle against dengue virus, a mosquito-borne virus responsible for 50-100 million infections every year, is that getting infected once can put people at greater risk ...
Dec 21, 2011 |
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Proteins linked to longevity may be involved in mood control
(Medical Xpress) -- Over the past decade, MIT biologist Leonard Guarente and others have shown that very-low-calorie diets provoke a comprehensive physiological response that promotes survival, all orchestrated by a set of ...
Dec 09, 2011 |
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A mother's touch may protect against drug cravings later
An attentive, nurturing mother may be able to help her children better resist the temptations of drug use later in life, according to a study in rats conducted by Duke University and the University of Adelaide in Australia.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Orphaned children exhibit genetic changes that require nurturing parents
Children who experience the stress of separation at birth from biological parents and are brought up in orphanages undergo biological consequences such as changes in their genome functioning, Yale School of ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Increasing dosage of clopidogrel for patients with genetic variation improves response to medication
Among patients with stable cardiovascular disease who have a genetic variation that diminishes the response to the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel, tripling the standard daily dosage of this medication resulted in improved ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Nov 16, 2011 |
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CHEO scientist advances biotherapeutics as published in Cancer Cell
Oncolytic virology uses live viruses to sense the genetic difference between a tumor and normal cell. Once the virus finds a tumor cell, it replicates inside that cell, kills it and then spreads to adjacent tumor cells to ...
Oct 18, 2011 |
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Asthma treatment may be headed toward personalized medicine
Asthma patients could clearly benefit from personalized medicine, a new study suggests. However, the new discovery of a key gene, while exciting, does not mean that day is here quite yet.
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Researchers find genes that help frogs resist fungus
(PhysOrg.com) -- For several decades, the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) has been decimating frogs, yet some populations and species have been able to resist the fatal disease, called ...
Sep 27, 2011 |
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Decoding vaccination: Researchers reveal genetic underpinnings of response to measles vaccine
Researchers at Mayo Clinic are hacking the genetic code that controls the human response to disease vaccination, and they are using this new cipher to answer many of the deep-seated questions that plague vaccinology, including ...
Sep 22, 2011 |
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Researchers identify potential molecular target to prevent growth of cancer cells
Researchers have shown for the first time that the protein fortilin promotes growth of cancer cells by binding to and rendering inert protein p53, a known tumor suppressor. This finding by researchers at the University of ...
Sep 16, 2011 |
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