News tagged with molecular networks

Full wired: Planar cell polarity genes guide gut neurons

The enteric nervous system (ENS), the "little brain" that resides within the gut wall, governs motility, secretion, and blood flow in the human gastrointestinal tract. Failure of the ENS to develop normally leads to congenital ...

Medical research Mar 08, 2013 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

Excess dietary salt identified as autoimmune trigger

For the past few decades, health officials have been reporting increases in the incidence of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS). Now researchers at Yale School of Medicine, Harvard Medical ...

Medical research Mar 06, 2013 | 4.4 / 5 (16) | 11 |

Study reveals molecular networks of mental health disorders

(Medical Xpress)—Early diagnosis and intervention for ADHD, autism and schizophrenia could be made possible after Australian scientists discovered the molecular networks in the brain showing psychiatric and developmental ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Feb 27, 2013 | not rated yet | 0

New computational pipeline analyzes tumor images, may help predict response to cancer therapy

(Medical Xpress)—How's this for big data: A whole-slide image of a tumor section can be ten billion pixels. There can be thousands of such images in the tumor cohorts maintained by The Cancer Genome Atlas ...

Cancer Feb 01, 2013 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Diabetic fruit flies support buzz about dietary sugar dangers

Regularly consuming sucrose—the type of sugar found in many sweetened beverages—increases a person's risk of heart disease. In a study published January 10 in the journal PLOS Genetics, researchers at San ...

Genetics Jan 17, 2013 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0 |

New discovery in autism-related disorder reveals key mechanism in brain development and disease

A new finding in neuroscience for the first time points to a developmental mechanism linking the disease-causing mutation in an autism-related disorder, Timothy syndrome, and observed defects in brain wiring, according to ...

Neuroscience Jan 14, 2013 | 4 / 5 (2) | 1 |

Schizophrenia genetic networks identified: Connection to autism found

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 ...

Neuroscience Nov 11, 2012 | 4.3 / 5 (8) | 1 |

How the brain forms categories

Neurobiologists at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna investigated how the brain is able to group external stimuli into stable categories. They found the answer in the discrete ...

Neuroscience Oct 20, 2012 | 3.8 / 5 (5) | 1

Researchers determine how inflammatory cells function, setting stage for future remedies

A research team led by investigators at New York University and NYU School of Medicine has determined how cells that cause inflammatory ailments, such as Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, and arthritis, differentiate from ...

Inflammatory disorders Sep 26, 2012 | not rated yet | 0 |

Making it easier to make stem cells

The process researchers use to generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)—a special type of stem cell that can be made in the lab from any type of adult cell—is time consuming and inefficient. To ...

Medical research Sep 25, 2012 | 5 / 5 (3) | 2 |

Five genes have been found to determine human facial shapes

Five genes have been found to determine human facial shapes, as reported by researchers from the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia in the open-access journal PLOS Genetics.

Genetics Sep 13, 2012 | 4 / 5 (5) | 0 |

ENCODE project: Yale team finds order amidst the chaos within the human genome

The massive Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) unveiled Sept. 5 reveals a human genome vastly more rich and complex than envisioned even a decade ago. In a key supporting paper published in the journal Nature, the lab of ...

Genetics Sep 05, 2012 | 5 / 5 (6) | 0 |

Astrocytes control the generation of new neurons from neural stem cells

Astrocytes are cells that have many functions in the central nervous system, such as the control of neuronal synapses, blood flow, or the brain's response to neurotrauma or stroke.

Medical research Aug 24, 2012 | not rated yet | 0 |

UCSF chancellor issues call-to-arms to patient advocates

In November 2011, a National Academy of Sciences committee issued a report calling for the creation of a "Google Maps"-like data network intended to revolutionize medical discovery, diagnosis and treatment. ...

Other Apr 11, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

New gene that causes intellectual disability discovered

A new study involving Canada's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has found a gene connected with a type of intellectual disability called Joubert syndrome.

Genetics May 12, 2011 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

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