News tagged with rna molecules

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Identifying key regulators of kidney injury

(Medical Xpress)—Micro-RNAs (miRNAs) are a recently discovered class of RNA molecules that regulate how genes are expressed. UCD researchers led by Conway Fellow, Professor Catherine Godson are studying the role of miRNAs ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'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

Connection between faulty neural activation and schizophrenia revealed

(Medical Xpress)—By studying what happens in the normal brain when neurons fire, Australian scientists have been able to identify a finely and dynamically regulated process. They also describe how dysfunction of this process ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 02, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Team finds markers related to ovarian cancer survival and recurrence

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Illinois have identified biomarkers that can be used to determine ovarian cancer survival and recurrence, and have shown how these biomarkers interact with ...

Cancer created Apr 30, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Big data analysis identifies prognostic RNA markers in a common form of breast cancer

A Big Data analysis that integrates three large sets of genomic data available through The Cancer Genome Atlas has identified 37 RNA molecules that might predict survival in patients with the most common form of breast cancer.

Cancer created Apr 29, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists create novel approach to find RNAs involved in long-term memory storage

(Phys.org) —Despite decades of research, relatively little is known about the identity of RNA molecules that are transported as part of the molecular process underpinning learning and memory. Now, working together, scientists ...

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

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

Brain development is guided by 'junk' DNA that isn't really junk

(Medical Xpress)—Specific DNA once dismissed as junk plays an important role in brain development and might be involved in several devastating neurological diseases, UC San Francisco scientists have found.

Genetics created Apr 15, 2013 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

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

Phase 1 ALS trial is first to test antisense treatment of neurodegenerative disease

The initial clinical trial of a novel approach to treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – blocking production of a mutant protein that causes an inherited form of the progressive neurodegererative disease – may ...

Neuroscience created Apr 03, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover that errors in RNA splicing lead to a class of neurological disorders 

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers have found that missteps in a basic cellular process, RNA splicing, is the culprit behind a class of rare neurological disorders manifested by intellectual disability and stunted development.

Genetics created Mar 29, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Making axons branch and grow to help nerve regeneration after injury

(Medical Xpress)—One molecule makes nerve cells grow longer. Another one makes them grow branches. These new experimental manipulations have taken researchers a step closer to understanding how nerve cells ...

Neuroscience created Mar 22, 2013 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Tiny RNA molecule may have role in polycystic ovary syndrome, insulin resistance

A group of tiny RNA molecules with a big role in regulating gene expression also appear to have a role in causing insulin resistance in woman with polycystic ovary syndrome and, perhaps, in all women, researchers ...

Diabetes created Mar 19, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Team finds general mechanism that accelerates tumor development

ICREA professor Raúl Méndez publishes a study in Nature describing how the CPBE1 protein "takes the brakes off" the production of proteins associated with the cell switch from being healthy to tumorous. ...

Cancer created Feb 24, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Ыtudy documents head and neck cancer molecular tumor subtypes

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is the seventh most common form of cancer in the United States, but other than an association with the human papillomavirus, no validated molecular profile of ...

Cancer created Feb 22, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast