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Discovery of a new family of key mitochondrial proteins for the function and viability of the brain

A team headed by Eduardo Soriano at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) has published a study in Nature Communications describing a new family of six genes whose function regulates the mo ...

Medical research created May 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Eat fish, build up brainpower

Can pregnant women help boost their children's brainpower by eating fish? The findings of a study, presented in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, show how children born to women who consumed more f ...

Health created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Gene switch for odorant receptors

The olfactory sensory neurons in the nasal mucosa perceive the myriad smells in the air with the aid of odorant receptors. Each sensory neuron chooses one and only one receptor gene for expression. The probability ...

Genetics created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New evidence for genetic basis of autism found

Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have discovered that one of the most common genetic alterations in autism -- deletion of a 27-gene cluster on chromosome 16 -- causes autism-like features. ...

Genetics created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Gene combination increases risk of lung cancer, particularly in light smokers, study finds

Smokers with variations in two specific genes have a greater risk of smoking more cigarettes, becoming more dependent on nicotine and developing lung cancer, a new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) ...

Cancer created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Arrowing in on Alzheimer's disease

Recently the number of genes known to be associated with Alzheimer's disease has increased from four to eight, including the MS4A gene cluster on chromosome 11. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Reining in nicotine use: Midbrain habenula region plays key role in nicotine dependence

A person's vulnerability to nicotine addiction appears to have a genetic basis, at least in part. A region in the midbrain called the habenula (from Latin: small reins) plays a key role in this process, as Dr. Inés Ibañez-Tallon ...

Neuroscience created May 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0