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Dogs, humans, put heads together to find cure for brain cancer

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pinpointing the genes involved in human brain cancer can be like looking for a needle in a haystack, and sometimes the needle you find may not be the right one. By comparing human and canine genomes, researchers at North ...


Perfect pitch study offers window into influences of nature and nurture

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created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Practice, practice, practice might get you to Carnegie Hall, but for aspiring musicians, there's new evidence that genes may influence one's ability to get there, as well.


Closing the gaps in the human genome

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created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sequence gaps in human chromosome 15 have been closed by the application of 454 technology. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology have described a simple and scalable method for finish ...





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Novel evolutionary tools for studying human populations using the X chromosome

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created Jun 16, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Research in the Department of Genetics at University of Leicester is well-known for its human population studies with the Y chromosome, including the relationship between the male surname and the Y chromosome, as well as ...


Scientists demonstrate role of protein in distinguishing chromosome ends from DNA breaks

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Stowers Institute's Baumann Lab has demonstrated how human cells protect chromosome ends from misguided repairs that can lead to cancer. The work, published in The EMBO Journal, a publication of the European Molecular Biolog ...


Newly-discovered mechanism can explain the Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome

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created Oct 24, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from Uppsala University have discovered a mechanism that silences several genes in a chromosome domain. The findings, published in today's on-line issue of Molecular Cell, have implications in understanding the hu ...


Sex Talk Revelations of the Lonely Y Chromosome

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the week that the University of Leicester celebrates the 25th anniversary of the discovery of DNA fingerprinting (Thursday September 10) new findings from the world-renowned University of Leicester Department ...


Male sex chromosome losing genes by rapid evolution, study reveals

Male sex chromosome losing genes by rapid evolution, study reveals

Biology / Evolution

created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 11

Scientists have long suspected that the sex chromosome that only males carry is deteriorating and could disappear entirely within a few million years, but until now, no one has understood the evolutionary ...


Cleft lip and palate: Genes more important than thought?

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created Mar 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Comparing 500,000 snippets of human DNA put scientists from the University of Bonn on the right track. A genetic variant on chromosome 8 occurs with significantly higher frequency in people with cleft lip and palate than ...


X chromosome exposed

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created May 29, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Hinxton, UK, have revealed new insights into how sex chromosomes are regulated. ...


'Achilles' heel' in Y chromosome linked to sex disorders

'Achilles' heel' in Y chromosome linked to sex disorders

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created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The unique mechanism behind the evolutionary survival of the human Y chromosome may also be responsible for a range of sex disorders, from failed sperm production to sex reversal to Turner Syndrome.


Female human embryos adjust the balance of X chromosomes before implantation

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created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dutch researchers have found the first evidence that a process of inactivating the X chromosome during embryo development and implantation, which was known to occur in mice but unknown in humans, does, in fact, take place ...


Common weed could provide clues on aging and cancer

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A common weed and human cancer cells could provide some very uncommon details about DNA structure and its relationship with telomeres and how they affect cellular aging and cancer, according to a team led by scientists from ...



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