News tagged with dna segment

Researchers look to mathematics, nature, to understand the immune system and its role in cancer

Can the patterns in tree branches or the meandering bends in a river provide clues that could lead to better cancer therapies? According to a new study from Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer ...

Medical research May 01, 2013 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Autism linked to increased genetic change in regions of genome instability

(Medical Xpress)—Children with autism have increased levels of genetic change in regions of the genome prone to DNA rearrangements, so called "hotspots," according to a research discovery to be published ...

Autism spectrum disorders Apr 03, 2013 | 3.6 / 5 (5) | 0 |

Study points to a safer, better test for chromosomal defects in the fetus

A noninvasive, sequencing-based approach for detecting chromosomal abnormalities in the developing fetus is safer and more informative in some cases than traditional methods, according to a study published ...

Genetics Jan 10, 2013 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Patients with family history of colorectal cancer may be at risk for aggressive form of the disease

BOSTON—When people with a family history of colorectal cancer develop the disease, their tumors often carry a molecular sign that the cancer could be life-threatening and may require aggressive treatment, Dana-Farber Cancer ...

Cancer Dec 12, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Combining two genome analysis approaches supports immune system contribution to autism

Researchers using novel approaches and methodologies of identifying genes that contribute to the development of autism have found evidence that disturbances in several immune-system-related pathways contribute to development ...

Autism spectrum disorders Dec 06, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Proteins expressed by human cytomegalovirus mapped

(Medical Xpress)—A new study in the US and Germany has added to our understanding of the human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) and how it manipulates the cells it infects.

Medical research Nov 23, 2012 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 1 |

Immune cells make flexible choices

Our immune system must be tremendously complex to respond to the unending assault of viruses, bacteria and cancerous cells. One of the mechanisms used by the immune system to cope with the huge variety of possible threats ...

Immunology Oct 22, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Uncovering the genome's regulatory code

Since the sequencing of the human genome in 2001, all our genes – around 20,000 in total – have been identified. But much is still unknown – for instance where and when each is active. Next to each ...

Genetics Sep 10, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1 |

Brain variants of protein associated with Huntington's and other neurodegenerative diseases identified

(Medical Xpress) -- A protein essential for metabolism and recently associated with neurodegenerative diseases also occurs in several brain-specific forms. This discovery emerged in the course of a research ...

Genetics Jul 23, 2012 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |

A small cut with a big impact

Diseases and injuries trigger warning signals in our cells. As a result, genes are expressed and proteins produced, modified or degraded to adapt to the external danger and to protect the organism. In order to be able to ...

Genetics May 02, 2012 | not rated yet | 0 |

Scientists link quickly spreading gene to Asian MRSA epidemic

National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and their colleagues in China have described a rapidly emerging Staphylococcus aureus gene, called sasX, which plays a pivotal role in establishing methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) ...

Genetics Apr 22, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |