News tagged with genomic rna


Recent studies warn surveillance of bird flu strains is needed

(Medical Xpress)—Recent scientific papers from China suggest a vigilant watch should be kept on the development of bird flu viruses, as a new strain has been identified and previously known viruses have ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 03, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

'Dark genome' is involved in Rett Syndrome

Researchers at the Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program at IDIBELL led by Manel Esteller, ICREA researcher and professor of genetics at the University of Barcelona, have described alterations in noncoding ...

Genetics created May 02, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Transgenic mice ready to fight obesity—and more

Scientists at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw investigate mice with a very precisely modified genome. Because it is possible to turn off the Dicer ...

Genetics created Apr 25, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Little molecule makes big difference in bladder cancer metastasis

In order to kill, bladder cancer must metastasize, most commonly to the lung – what are the differences between bladder cancers that do and do not make this deadly transition? Research presented by the Director of the University ...

Cancer created Apr 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Exploring lincRNA's role in breast cancer

Once considered part of the "junk" of our genome, much of the DNA between protein-coding genes is now known to be transcribed. New findings by scientists at Fox Chase Cancer Center have identified several dozen transcripts ...

Cancer created Apr 08, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Zeroing in on heart disease: Innovative strategy pinpoints genes underlying cardiovascular disease risk

Studies screening the genome of hundreds of thousands of individuals (known as Genome-wide association studies or GWAS) have linked more than 100 regions in the genome to the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Researchers ...

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Discovery in HIV may solve efficiency problems for gene therapy

A research team from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has discovered an approach that could make gene therapy dramatically more effective for patients.

HIV & AIDS created Feb 14, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new mechanism that contributes to the evolution of cancer

Cancer arises from the accumulation of mutations and structural changes in chromosomes, which in some cases give rise to combinations that favour the growth or expansion of the disease. In this context, chromosomes tend to ...

Cancer created Jan 31, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New technique sheds light on RNA: Researchers develop method that could enhance gene sequencing data

Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed a technique to better understand why RNA may be different in cancer cells than in normal cells. The technique will bring new depth of understanding ...

Medical research created Jan 28, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Long non-coding RNA molecules necessary to regulate differentiation of embryonic stem cells into cardiac cells

When the human genome was sequenced, biologists were surprised to find that very little of the genome—less than 3 percent—corresponds to protein-coding genes. What, they wondered, was all the rest of ...

Medical research created Jan 25, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

CNIO researchers develop new databases for understanding the human genome

Scientists from the Structural Computational Biology Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), led by Alfonso Valencia, together with French and American researchers, have published recently two articles ...

Genetics created Dec 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study of fruit fly genes reveals how molecules cooperate to induce tumor formation

Cancer biologists have known for decades that even the most potent cancer-causing genes do not act alone. Yet, identifying which combinations of genetic changes can cause a tumor to form and disease to progress ...

Genetics created Dec 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers describe elusive replication machinery of flu viruses

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have made a major advance in understanding how flu viruses replicate within infected cells. The researchers used cutting-edge molecular biology and electron-microscopy ...

Medical research created Nov 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Discovery advances fight against phleboviruses

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers in the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan have discovered how a particular type of virus hides and protects its genetic information from the immune system, ...

Medical research created Nov 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New method helps link genomic variation to protein production

Scientists have adopted a novel laboratory approach for determining the effect of genetic variation on the efficiency of the biological process that translates a gene's DNA sequence into a protein, such as hemoglobin, according ...

Genetics created Nov 06, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast