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
Nov 07, 2012 |
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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
Nov 06, 2012 |
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Whitehead scientists identify major flaw in standard approach to global gene expression analysis
Whitehead Institute researchers report that common assumptions employed in the generation and interpretation of data from global gene expression analyses can lead to seriously flawed conclusions about gene activity and cell ...
Genetics
Oct 25, 2012 |
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Non-coding antisense RNA can be used to stimulate protein production
While studying Parkinson's disease, an international research group made a discovery which can improve industrial protein synthesis for therapeutic use. They managed to understand a novel function of non-protein ...
Genetics
Oct 16, 2012 |
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An immunosuppressive drug could delay the onset of neurodegenerative diseases
Rapamycin, a drug used to prevent rejection in transplants, could delay the onset of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. This is the main conclusion of a study published in the Nature in which ...
Neuroscience
Oct 15, 2012 |
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Diverse intestinal viruses may play a role in AIDS progression
In monkeys and humans with AIDS, damage to the gastrointestinal tract is common, contributing to activation of the immune system, progressive immune deficiency, and ultimately advanced AIDS. How this gastric damage occurs ...
HIV & AIDS
Oct 11, 2012 |
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Research scores advance in manipulating T-cells
(Medical Xpress)—Until recently, medical researchers had little hope of experimentally manipulating naïve T cells to study their crucial roles in immune function, because they were largely impenetrable, ...
Medical research
Oct 11, 2012 |
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RNA-based therapy brings new hope for an incurable blood cancer
Three thousand new cases of Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL), a form of blood cancer, appear in the United States each year. With a median survival span of only five to seven years, according to the Leukemia and ...
Cancer
Oct 10, 2012 |
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Invisible tails help cancerous mRNA evade the body's censors
In innumerable spy movies, the hero or a villain imprints a key in clay in order to later make an exact copy. In the body, the clay is messenger RNA, or mRNA, which imprints a gene and transfers the plans to a ribosome, where ...
Cancer
Oct 10, 2012 |
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Scientists identify genetic signatures for aggressive form of prostate cancer
Scientists have discovered two separate genetic 'signatures' for prostate cancer that appear to be able to predict the severity of the disease, leading to hopes that in future, accuracy of prognosis and treatment of the disease ...
Cancer
Oct 08, 2012 |
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Notch control of cell architecture: Potential implications for future cancer therapy
Dissecting the mechanisms implicated in cell architecture should provide new insights for understanding development and tissue morphogenesis in general. An European study focused on the role of the Notch ...
Cancer
Oct 05, 2012 |
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Researchers define two categories of multiple sclerosis patients
There are approximately 400,000 people in the United States with multiple sclerosis. Worldwide, the number jumps to more than 2.1 million people. Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach to treating the millions with multiple ...
Neuroscience
Sep 26, 2012 |
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Researchers prevent heart failure in mice
(Medical Xpress)—Cardiac stress, for example a heart attack or high blood pressure, frequently leads to pathological heart growth and subsequently to heart failure. Two tiny RNA molecules play a key role ...
Cardiology
Sep 25, 2012 |
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Self-regulating networks dictate the genetic program of tumor cells
Scientists at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin could explain a yet unknown regulatory network that controls the growth of tumor cells. Understanding such networks is an important task in molecular tumor biology in ...
Cancer
Sep 25, 2012 |
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Dark matter DNA active in brain during day-night cycle
(Medical Xpress)—Long stretches of DNA once considered inert dark matter appear to be uniquely active in a part of the brain known to control the body's 24-hour cycle, according to researchers at the National Institutes ...
Medical research
Sep 24, 2012 |
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