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Scientists clarify editing error underlying genetic neurodegenerative disease

Two molecular biologists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have uncovered important new details about how a gene mutation causes a cellular editing error that results in a devastating disease called pontocerebellar hypoplasia ...

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created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers find mechanism underlying alt. splicing of premessenger RNA into messenger RNA

An international research team led by Tim Nilsen, Ph.D., a professor of medicine and biochemistry and the director of the School of Medicine's Center for RNA Molecular Biology, has discovered an unexpected mechanism governing ...

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created Dec 24, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1




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With WeVideo, you can edit video in the cloud, then share it

The Internet has long been a great place to express yourself in words. But two of the biggest trends on the Web, cloud computing and social networks, are also making it a great place to express yourself with images - to create ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Long-term correction of severe spinal muscular atrophy by antisense therapy

A new study from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) reports surprising results that suggest that the devastating neuromuscular disease, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), might not exclusively affect the motor neurons in the ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

DNA construction software saves time, resources and money

DNA construction, also known as DNA cloning or recombinant DNA technology - among a host of other terms - is one of the principal tools of modern biotechnology, used for a wide variety of purposes, including ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Insect virus holds the key to safer stem cell therapy

The future of regenerative medicine lies in harnessing the potential of the human body to renew and repair itself. Now, scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the world’s ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Multiple 'siblings' from every gene: Alternate gene reading leads to alternate gene products

A genome-wide survey by researchers at The Wistar Institute shows how our cells create alternate versions of mRNA transcripts by altering how they "read" DNA. Many genes are associated with multiple gene promoters, the researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New information revealed about a protein implicated in autism and similar disorders; could lead to better drug design

(Medical Xpress) -- University of Michigan researcher Gabrielle Rudenko and her Life Sciences Institute lab have solved the structure of a protein that is implicated in a number of neuropsychiatric disorders including autism ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Many hereditary conditions associated with errors in pre-mRNA splicing, study suggests

A new Brown University computer analysis that predicts the effect of genetic mutations on how the body splices mRNA indicates as many as a third of disease-related mutations may be linked to splicing problems -- more than ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Safeguarding genome integrity through extraordinary DNA repair

(PhysOrg.com) -- DNA is under constant attack, from internal factors like free radicals and external ones like ionizing radiation. About 10 double-strand breaks – the kind that snap both backbones of ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New clues for asthma treatment

(PhysOrg.com) -- New information that could help in the fight against asthma has been obtained by an international collaboration of scientists utilizing the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Loss of key protein boosts neuron loss in ALS

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as ALS or more popularly, Lou Gehrig's disease, is a notorious neurodegenerative condition characterized by the progressive deterioration of brain and spinal cord neurons, resulting in ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 04, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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