News tagged with reporter gene
Of yeast and men: Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of Friedreich's ataxia
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Researchers in human genetics have long known that expansions of GAA repeats - resulting in this nucleotide triplet repeating hundreds or thousands of times - cause the most common hereditary neurological disorder known as ...
New imaging technique tracks cancer-killing cells over prolonged period
Nov 18, 2008 |
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Coaxing a patient's own cells to hunt down and tackle infected or diseased cells is a promising therapeutic approach for many disorders. But until now, efforts to follow these specially modified cells after their reintroduction ...
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New molecular imaging techniques may lead to advances in disease treatment
Jun 16, 2008 |
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A promising new technique has been developed that will enable more accurate non-invasive positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of new cells injected into the body, according to researchers at SNM's 55th Annual Meeting. ...
New technique allows simultaneous tracking of gene expression and movement
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Dec 16, 2008 |
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Flies expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) in their retina cells or other tissues can be tracked by specially modified video cameras, creating a real time computer record of movement and gene expression. The new technique, ...
Master Molecular Switch May Prevent the Spread of Cancer Cells to Distant Sites in the Body
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified a master switch that might prevent cancer cells from metastasizing from a primary tumor to other organs. The switch is a protein ...
Synthetic gene circuit allows precise dosing of gene expression
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Researchers have crafted a gene circuit that permits precise tuning of a gene's expression in a cell, an advance that should allow for more accurate analysis of the gene's role in normal and abnormal cellular function.
New technique developed for tracking cells in the body
Mar 20, 2007 |
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Scientists' inability to follow the whereabouts of cells injected into the human body has long been a major drawback in developing effective medical therapies. Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins have developed a promising ...
Study identifies biomarker that safely monitors tumor response to new brain cancer treatment
Jul 01, 2009 |
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A specific biomarker, a protein released by dying tumor cells, has been identified as an effective tool in an animal model to gauge the response to a novel gene therapy treatment for glioblastoma mulitforme. The finding, ...
Scientists capture the first image of memories being made
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 18, 2009 |
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The ability to learn and to establish new memories is essential to our daily existence and identity; enabling us to navigate through the world. A new study by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute ...
Researchers wake up viruses inside tumors to image and then destroy cancers
Mar 01, 2007 |
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Researchers have found a way to activate Epstein-Barr viruses inside tumors as a way to identify patients whose infection can then be manipulated to destroy their tumors. They say this strategy could offer a novel way of ...
Gene implicated in stress-induced high blood pressure
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Do stressful situations make your blood pressure rise? If so, your phosducin gene could be to blame according to a team of researchers, at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, ...
Farnesoid X receptor regulates cystathionase
May 13, 2009 |
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The expression and activity of Cystathionase is reduced in rodent models of liver injury, leading to hyper-homocysteinemia and impaired generation of hydrogen sulphide, two factors that contribute to endothelial dysfunction ...
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