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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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Medical Research News An international team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers has identified genetic markers associated with risk for ulcerative colitis. |
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Friday, 02 January 2009 |
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Medical Research News Scientists have new info about the complex genetic signature associated with Alzheimer's disease, the leading cause of cognitive decline and dementia in the old. |
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News According to an international survey by the BBVA Foundation conducted this year, citizens in enhanced societies view assisted reproduction techniques in common and in vitro fertilization in particular as tightly acceptable alternatives for people with fertility problems (over... |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Write out every letter in the human genome, one A, C, T or G per millimeter, and the text would be 1,800 miles long, roughly the distance from New York to Colorado. |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is an inherited disease sometimes known as 'Boy in the bubble syndrome', thanks to the patient lacks one or more type of immune cell, making them very susceptible to infections. |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Over a period of five years, scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have managed to make a genetically modified mouse in which the activity of the blood stem cells can be tracked. "This mouse was made from a single embryonic stem cell. |
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Monday, 15 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News In one of the largest studies of its kind, a multinational team led by scientists from deCODE genetics has reported the discovery of usual variations at seven new sites in the human genome found to influence fatness. |
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Monday, 15 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News A genetic study of more than 90,000 people has identified six new genetic variants that are associated with increased Body Mass Index (BMI), the most generally used measure of fatness. |
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 |
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Medical Science News Researchers may have identified one of the body's first responses to a group of parasites that causes sickness in developing nations. |
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 |
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Medical Procedure News Carrier screening for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) - a serious genetic disease affecting approximately 1 in 10,000 infants that causes progressive muscle weakness and death - should be made available to all families, according to a new practice guideline issued by the... |
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Monday, 08 December 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Canadian researchers announce the discovery of MEDNIK Syndrome, a debilitating genetic syndrome. |
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Monday, 08 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News A new genome-wide study examines genetic variants associated with nine metabolic traits and is the first to draw out novel variants from a population unselected for present disease. |
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Friday, 05 December 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Canadian researchers announce the discovery of MEDNIK Syndrome, a debilitating genetic syndrome. |
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Friday, 05 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News For years, scientists have struggled to decipher the genetic instruction book that details where and when the 20,000 genes in a human cell will be turned on or off. |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Australian scientists have discovered that a person's genetic makeup can influence how they are affected by sickness - they say a certain genetic vulnerability can intensify an sickness. |
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Monday, 01 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Common genetic polymorphisms induce major differentiations in the metabolic make-up of the human population, according to a paper published November 28 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics. |
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Monday, 01 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Hereditary info flows from parents to offspring not just through DNA but also through the millions of proteins and other molecules that cling to it. |
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Monday, 01 December 2008 |
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Medical Science News If chromosomes snuggle up too densely at the wrong times, the results can be genetic disaster.Now researchers have found the molecular machines in fruit flies that yank chromosomes, the DNA-carrying structures, apart when needed. |
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Friday, 28 November 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News Malaria, one of the oldest diseases known to man, has shown no signs of slowing down as it ages. |
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Friday, 28 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Defective calcium metabolism in nerve cells may play a major role in a fatal genetic neurological disorder that resembles Huntington's disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found in a mouse study. |
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Thursday, 27 November 2008 |
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Medical Science News A very little fraction of our genetic material - about 2% - performs the crucial task scientists once thought was the sole purpose of the genome: to serve as a plan for the production of proteins, the molecules that make cells work and sustain life. |
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Sunday, 23 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Neuroscientists at the Indiana University School of Medicine have built the first comprehensive map of genes likely to be involved in bipolar disorder, according to research published online Nov. 21 in the American Journal of Medical Genetics. |
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Friday, 21 November 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News Scientists report the discovery of a new species of Ebola virus, provisionally named Bundibugyo ebolavirus, November 21 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens. |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News People are different, both physically and mentally, but genetically everybody is very alike.That's been the thought of scientists for decades now. |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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Medical Condition News The infrequentst kind of Alzheimer Disease (AD) - the form that transmits from parent to child with a cruel 50 percent likelihood - has been valued for its potential to shed light for the millions of people affected by the regular form of AD. |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Microvesicles- small membrane-covered sacs- released from glioblastoma cells contain molecules that may provide data that can guide treatment of the deadly brain tumor. |
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Thursday, 13 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Four in five Americans support the thought of a nationwide study to investigate the interactions of genes, environment and lifestyle, and 3 in five say they would be willing to take part in such a study, according to a survey released today. |
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News An international team of researchers, which included scientists from the University of Queensland, have generated an atlas of genes involved in kidney formation. |
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 |
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Drug Trials In a study that could have meaningful consequences for neural tissue transplantation strategies, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that inactivating a particular gene in adult neural stem cells makes nerve cells emerging from those precursors form... |
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Monday, 10 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Yale researchers have taken the first critical steps in unraveling the mysteries of brain aneurysms, the frequently fatal rupturing of blood vessels that afflicts 500,000 people worldwide each year and almost killed Vice President-elect Joseph Biden 2 decades ago. |
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