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Secrets revealed about how disease-causing DNA mutations occur

Secrets revealed about how disease-causing DNA mutations occur

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of Penn State scientists has shed light on the processes that lead to certain human DNA mutations that are implicated in hundreds of inherited diseases such as tuberous sclerosis and neurofibromatosis ...





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Researchers illuminate mechanisms that regulate DNA damage control and replication

Biology /

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have demonstrated important new roles for the protein kinase complex Cdc7/Dbf4 or Cdc7/Drf1 (Ddk) in monitoring damage control during DNA replication and reinitiating ...


Parents fear errors during children's hospitalization

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Nearly two-thirds of parents reported they felt the need to watch over their child's care to ensure that medical errors are not made during their hospital stay, according to a study led by Beth A. Tarini, M.D., M.S., assistant ...


Implications of Past Forecasting Errors Often Underestimated

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When managers issue a forecast of their firm's earnings, they do not always take into account prior forecasting errors, according to research in the current issue of the Journal of Business Finance & Accounting.


New strategy for inhibiting virus replication

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Viruses need living cells for replication and production of virus progeny. Thus far, antiviral therapy primarily targets viral factors but often induces therapy resistance. New improved therapies attempt to targets cellular ...


Researchers find quantum errors do compute

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from The University of Queensland have found the emerging field of quantum computing may be more stable than previously thought.


Out of court settlement of malpractice claims: Incorrect treatment of bone fractures in children

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Incorrectly treated fractures in children are one of the errors most frequently confirmed in the arbitration process. This was the conclusion reached by Heinrich Vinz and Johann Neu of the Arbitration Board of the North German ...


Burned out, depressed surgeons more likely to commit more major medical errors

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Surgeons who are burned out or depressed are more likely to say they had recently committed a major error on the job, according to the largest study to date on physician burnout. The new findings suggest that the mental well-being ...


Researchers run rings round cell division

Researchers run rings round cell division

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created Jul 03, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 2

A puzzle in the control of cell division, one of the most fundamental processes in all biology, has been unravelled by Oxford University researchers.


Engineered human fusion protein inhibits HIV-1 replication

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In 2004, Jeremy Luban and colleagues from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, reported that New World owl monkeys (Aotus genus) make a fusion protein - AoT5Cyp - that potently blocks HIV-1 infection. The human genome encodes ...


Scripps research team unravels new cellular repair mechanism

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created Aug 06, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A Scripps Research team has unraveled a new biochemical pathway that triggers a critical repair response to correct errors in the DNA replication process that could otherwise lead to harmful or fatal mutations in cells. Though ...



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