News tagged with regulation
Gene knockout may cheer up mice
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Removing the PKCI/HINT1 gene from mice has an anti-depressant-like and anxiolytic-like effect. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience applied a battery of behavioral tests to the PKCI/HINT1 knocko ...
Deciphering the regulatory code: Scientists take new approach to predict gene expression
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Embryonic development is like a well-organised building project, with the embryo's DNA serving as the blueprint from which all construction details are derived. Cells carry out different functions according ...
Brain tumors in childhood leave a lasting mark on cognition, life status
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Brain tumors in childhood cast a long shadow on survivors. The first study of the lasting impact of these tumors -- the most common solid malignancies in childhood -- shows that survivors have ongoing cognitive problems. ...
Research explores the relationship between the mother-child bond and stress
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s the age-old psychological conundrum: nature versus nurture. Are children more, less or equally affected by their genetics and the environment in which they grow up? Professor of Psychology ...
The food-energy cellular connection revealed
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Our body's activity levels fall and rise to the beat of our internal drums—the 24-hour cycles that govern fundamental physiological functions, from sleeping and feeding patterns to the energy available to our cells. Whereas ...
Researcher solves mystery about proteins that package the genome
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Florida State University College of Medicine researcher has solved a century-old mystery about proteins that play a vital role in the transfer of the human genetic code from one cell to ...
Treatment of personality disorders by psychotherapy: A French multicenter study
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 23, 2009 |
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A French multicenter study headed by Jean Cottraux (Lyon) has investigated the role of psychotherapy in borderline personality disorder.
Regulatory role of key molecule discovered
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Discovery by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers of an additional role for a key molecule in our bodies provides a further step in world-wide efforts to develop genetic regulation aimed at controlling ...
Scientists discover mechanism to make existing antibiotics more effective at lower doses
Sep 10, 2009 |
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A new study published in the September 11, 2009 issue of Science by researchers at the NYU School of Medicine reveals a conceptually novel mechanism that plays an important role in making human pathogens like Staphylococcus aureus an ...
Researchers demonstrate that messenger RNA are lost in translation
Aug 23, 2009 |
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Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine assistant professor in the Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Jeff Coller, Ph.D., and his team discovered that messenger RNA (mRNA) predominately degrade on ribosomes, fundamentally ...
Found: A gene that may play a role in type 1 diabetes
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Scientists at Stanford University have identified a gene that may play a role in the development of type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body's insulin-producing cells. Insulin, a ...
Scientists find universal rules for food-web stability
Aug 06, 2009 |
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The findings, published in this week's issue of Science, conclude that food-web stability is enhanced when many diverse predator-prey links connect high and intermediate trophic levels. The computations also reveal that s ...
UCSD Engineer Provides Insights to Decades-Old DNA Squabble
Jul 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of nanoengineers, biologists and physicists have used innovative approaches to deduce the internal structure of chromatin, a key player in DNA regulation, to reconcile a longstanding ...
Cancer's distinctive pattern of gene expression could aid early screening and prevention
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Distinctive patterns of genes turned off - or left on - in healthy versus cancerous cells could enable early screening for many common cancers and maybe help avoid them, Medical College of Georgia scientists ...
Teasing apart T helper cells
Jul 27, 2009 |
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The cytokine IL-9 promotes a multiple sclerosis-like disease in mice, according to a new study by Nowak et al. published online on July 13th in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. In a related Commentary, Richar ...
