http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Scientists at the University of Liverpool are working to identify genes involved in the development of bacterial meningitis to support the search for new vaccine candidates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-analysing-meningitis-genes-treatments.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:56:02 EST news285576955 Lance Waller, PhD, chair of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health, will present preliminary work that explores relationships between high-levels of air pollution exposure and health effects at a press briefing hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science on February 17. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-explores-associations-air-pollution-health.html Health Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:01:40 EST news280314064 Enzyme hunters at UiO have discovered the function of an enzyme that is important in the spreading of cancer. Cancer researchers now hope to inhibit the enzyme. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-newly-enzyme-implicated-cancer.html Cancer Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:17:03 EST news272182595 Although schizophrenia is highly genetic in origin, the genes involved in the disorder have been difficult to identify. In the past few years, researchers have implicated several genes, but it is unclear how they act to produce the disorder. A new study by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center identifies affected gene networks and provides insight into the molecular causes of the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-schizophrenia-genetic-networks-autism.html Neuroscience Sun, 11 Nov 2012 13:00:56 EST news271860274 In a brief paper in the journal Bioinformatics, Brown University researchers describe a new, freely available Web-based program called Spliceman for predicting whether genetic mutations are likely to disrupt the splicing of messenger RNA, potentially leading to disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-genetic-mutation-spliceman.html Genetics Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:01:20 EST news250167659