New research results reveal that two Parkinson genes can maintain the mitochondrial functions (Monday 24th of August 2009 06:21:49 PM)
Parkinson's disease is caused by the degeneration of neurons in the midbrain. The mechanisms
leading to the loss of these neurons, however, are largely unknown. Recent study revealed that
about ten per cent of cases are caused by defects in hypothetical ...
(more)Robot Makes Scientific Discovery (Mostly) On Its Own (Friday 03rd of April 2009 07:45:01 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "A science-savvy robot called Adam has successfully grown and tested its
first scientific hypothesis, discovering that certain genes in baker's yeast code for express
enzymes which hearten biochemical reactions in yeast, then ran an ...
(more)Test For Prostate Cancer Gene Soon To Be Available (Sunday 04th of January 2009 10:00:01 AM)
Tiger4 writes "CNN reports on a simple test to delimitate the subsistence of genes linked to
Prostate Cancer. These five genes, if present, can rise the risk of prostate cancer up to nine
times. 'More than 25,000 red white and blue banner men will die ...
(more)Researchers Find More Genes Linked to Lung Cancer (Wednesday 22nd of October 2008 09:02:45 PM)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have
identified 26 genes
registered delegate with the most common type of lung cancer,
adenocarcinoma -- more than
doubling the number of genes known to play a
role in the deadly disease.
...
(more)Opposable Thumbs and Upright Walking Caused By "Junk DNA" (Monday 08th of September 2008 05:30:01 AM)
Quinnlynn writes "A group of inquest scientists at Yale discovered that the llc.cite this
source roget's ii: the new thesaurus of opposable thumbs and upright walking in humans is due
to changes in the genome in the areas still classified as "junk DNA." ...
(more)2 New Genes Tied to 3 Cancers (Thursday 07th of August 2008 10:02:04 PM)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Aug. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Two genes linked to breast,
thyroid and kidney
cancer have been identified by Cleveland Clinic
researchers. The strike of the genes SDHB and
SDHD could help improve
early find of these cancers and boost ...
(more)Scientists ID New Genes Tied to Crohn's Disease (Tuesday 01st of July 2008 04:46:22 AM)
HealthDay - MONDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have identified 21 new
genetic
regions implicated in Crohn's disease, bringing to 32 the total
number of genes and loci --
regions of the genome consistently including one
or more genes that ...
(more)Scientists identify key roadblock to gene expression (Friday 09th of May 2008 01:09:00 AM)
A team of scientists has provided, for the first time, a circumstantial map of how the domicile
blocks of chromosomes, the cellular structures that contain genes, are organized in the fruit
fly Drosophila melanogaster. The work identifies a critical stop ...
(more)Team Finds 118 Genes That Might Play Role in Cancer (Tuesday 08th of January 2008 04:46:57 AM)
HealthDay - MONDAY, Jan. 7 (HealthDay News) -- An international team of
scientists has
pinpointed 480 genes that play a role in cell division,
and in the process they also
discovered that more than 100 of those genes
show an abnormal pattern of activation ...
(more)Men carry breast cancer genes, too (AP) (Friday 14th of December 2007 09:32:30 PM)
Doctors are merciful a new group of people to look at getting tested for genes that raise the
risk of breast cancer: men. Male relatives of women with such genes often do not realize that
they, too, may carry them, and face greater ...
(more)Genes found that slow both aging and cancer (Sunday 14th of October 2007 09:48:45 PM)
Researchers have identified a batch
of genes that not only prevent cancer but slow the
aging
process in worms, and say they are now looking to see if the
genes have the same
properties in humans.
...
(more)3 New Lung Cancer Genes Identified (Tuesday 09th of October 2007 04:55:25 PM)
Three genes that appear to work together are customer's broker person with 20 percent of lung
cancers, and these same genes are linked to fetal lung development, researchers report.
More: - Brought to ...
(more)The Importance Of Gene Regulation For Common Human Disease (Wednesday 19th of September 2007 09:00:00 AM)
A new study keep quiet in Nature analysis shows that common, complex diseases are more likely
to be due to genetic variation in regions that control activity of genes, rather than in the
regions that specify the protein code.This surprising result comes ...
(more)One Species' Genome Discovered Inside Another's (Friday 31st of August 2007 06:45:11 PM)
Slyyy writes "The Universtiy of Rochester has discovered the complete genome of a bacterial
parasite inside the genome of the host species. This opens the possibility of exchanging DNA
between unrelated species and changing our understanding of the evolutionary ...
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