News tagged with nucleotides

Ovarian cancer risk related to inherited inflammation genes

In a study conducted by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues from 11 other institutions in the Unites States and the United Kingdom, genes that are known to be involved in inflammation were found to be related ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Large-scale study of East Asian individuals reveals a number of previously overlooked genetic variants

Broad, population-based investigations known as genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are now a standard tool for helping scientists to pinpoint genetic variations that can contribute to disease risk or pathology. ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Three new genetic links to breast cancer identified

(Medical Xpress) -- An international team of researchers has identified three new genetic loci associated with an increased susceptibility to breast cancer. As described in their paper published in Nature Ge ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Researchers identify genetic signatures of exceptional longevity in re-published study

While environment and family history are factors in healthy aging, genetic variants play a critical and complex role in conferring exceptional longevity, according to researchers from the Boston University Schools of Public ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New method pinpoints important gene-regulation proteins

A novel technique has been developed and demonstrated at Penn State University to map the proteins that read and regulate chromosomes -- the string-like structures inside cells that carry genes. The specific ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists create novel RNA repair technology

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have identified a compound that can help repair a specific type of defect in RNA, a type of genetic material. The methods in the new study could accelerate ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Eat fish, build up brainpower

Can pregnant women help boost their children's brainpower by eating fish? The findings of a study, presented in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, show how children born to women who consumed more f ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Sensitive detection method analyzes circulating tumor cells in patients with lung cancer

Researchers have developed a method to analyze circulating tumor cells in the blood of patients with non-small cell lung cancer. This method, which can analyze a sample size as small as three cells, may allow clinicians to ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Bristol-Myers Squibb to buy Inhibitex for $2.5 billion

Pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb Company announced it was acquiring Inhibitex, Inc., a company specializing in treatment of hepatitis C, for $2.5 billion (1.9 billion euros).

Medicine & Health / Medications

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No brakes on breast cancer cells

Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center have discovered a tiny RNA molecule, called miR-520, which at once blocks two important pathways in the development of cancer in cells. In estrogen receptor-negative ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Two-step technique makes graphene suitable for organic chemistry

The future brightened for organic chemistry when researchers at Rice University found a highly controllable way to attach organic molecules to pristine graphene, making the miracle material suitable for a ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Environment and diet leave their prints on the heart

A University of Cambridge study, which set out to investigate DNA methylation in the human heart and the 'missing link' between our lifestyle and our health, has now mapped the link in detail across the entire human genome.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New ADHD findings

A combination of rare and common genetic variations could play a part in biological pathways linked to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Biologists uncover a novel cellular proofreading mechanism

(PhysOrg.com) -- To make proteins, cells assemble long chains of amino acids, based on genetic instructions from DNA. That construction takes place in a tiny cellular structure called a ribosome, to which amino acids are ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study finds specific gene linked to cold sore susceptibility

Investigators have identified a human chromosome containing a specific gene associated with susceptibility to herpes simplex labialis (HSL), the common cold sore. Published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases and now av ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nucleotide

Nucleotides are molecules that, when joined together, make up the structural units of RNA and DNA. In addition, nucleotides participate in cellular signaling (cGMP and cAMP), and are incorporated into important cofactors of enzymatic reactions (coenzyme A, FAD, FMN, and NADP+). Nucleotide derivatives such as the nucleoside triphosphates play central roles in metabolism, in which capacity they serve as sources of chemical energy (ATP and GTP).

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