Oncology & Cancer
Gene research could push cancer research forward
New research by scientists at the Australian National University (ANU) will help us better understand rare forms of cancer.
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Genetics
It's in the genome: Uncovering clues to longevity from human genetics
Researchers from Osaka University have found that high blood pressure and obesity are the strongest factors reducing lifespan based on genetic and clinical information of 700,000 patients in the U.K., Finland and Japan. These ...
Mar 23, 2020
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Diabetes
DNA misfolding in white blood cells increases risk for type 1 diabetes
It's known that genetics, or an inherited genome, is a major determinant of one's risk for autoimmune diseases, like Type 1 diabetes. In human cells, a person's genome—about six feet of DNA—is compressed into the micrometer ...
Feb 11, 2020
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Genetics
Research: Genes are transcribed differently in childhood, have health impacts in adulthood
A team of researchers from the University of California, the University of Zürich, Vanderbilt University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that environmental conditions during childhood can impact ...
Oncology & Cancer
Differences in lung cancer tumors found between East Asians and Europeans
A team of researchers from a host of institutions in Singapore and China has found that there are genetic differences between some lung cancer tumors in East Asians versus Europeans. In their paper published in the journal ...
Oncology & Cancer
Give and take: Cancer chromosomes give the game away
Dr. Pascal Duijf from QUT's School of Biomedical Sciences and IHBI (Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation) said the study, published in Nature Communications today, analysed chromosome arm abnormalities in more than ...
Jan 29, 2020
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Health
Air pollution in Taiwan boosts risk of ischemic stroke
Long-term exposure to hydrocarbons in the air may be a risk factor for ischemic stroke development, according to a study published December 4, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Han-Wei Zhang of China Medical University, ...
Dec 4, 2019
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Genetics
Babies' own genes influence when they are born
When a woman is pregnant, when she delivers is important to the health of herself and her child. Preterm birth is a major cause of health problems and is the leading cause of death in children under the age of five years ...
Sep 3, 2019
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Genetics
Researchers report the function of reverse-twisting DNA
Normally, the two strands of the DNA double helix wind around each other in a right-handed spiral. However, there is another conformation called Z-DNA in which the strands twist to the left. The function of Z-DNA has remained ...
Jul 19, 2019
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Genetics
A noncoding RNA may play an important role in memory formation
You could call this a neat discovery. Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have found that a tissue-specific, non-coding RNA called NEAT1 has a major, previously undescribed role in memory formation. The ...
Jul 2, 2019
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