'Junk DNA' can sense viral infection
Once considered unimportant "junk DNA," scientists have learned that non-coding RNA (ncRNA) — RNA molecules that do not translate into proteins — play a crucial role in cellular function. Mutations in ncRNA are ...
Medical research
Apr 24, 2012 |
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First-ever integrative 'Omics' profile lets scientist discover, track his diabetes onset
Geneticist Michael Snyder, PhD, has almost no privacy. For more than two years, he and his lab members at the Stanford University School of Medicine pored over his body's most intimate secrets: the sequence of his DNA, the ...
Genetics
Mar 15, 2012 |
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When body clock runs down, immune system takes time off
It's been said that timing is everything, and that may be particularly true when it comes to the ability to fight off disease. New research published by Cell Press in the February issue of the journal Immunity shows that t ...
Immunology
Feb 16, 2012 |
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Mutation drives viral sensors to initiate autoimmune disease
A new study uses a mouse model of a human autoimmune disease to reveal how abnormal regulation of the intracellular sensors that detect invading viruses can lead to autoimmune pathology. The research, published online on ...
Immunology
Jan 26, 2012 |
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'Get vaccinated,' says HPV expert at UB Medical School
(Medical Xpress) -- A University at Buffalo microbiologist whose lab has been studying the human papilloma virus for years, says that parents should have their children vaccinated with Gardasil, the HPV vaccine.
Cancer
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Discovery could lead ways to prevent herpes spread
(Medical Xpress) -- Herpesviruses are thrifty reproducers -- they only send off their most infectious progeny to invade new cells. Two Cornell virologists recently have discovered how these viruses determine ...
Medical research
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Cancer researchers find key oncoprotein in Merkel cell carcinoma
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) have identified the oncoprotein that allows a common and usually harmless virus to transform healthy cells into a rare but deadly skin cancer called Merkel ...
Cancer
Aug 15, 2011 |
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The search for an effective treatment for critical limb ischemia continues
Despite showing promising results in a recent phase 2 trial, administration of a novel gene therapy (NV1FGF) to enhance the growth of new blood vessels in people with critical limb ischaemia (whose legs are damaged when blocked ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 30, 2011 |
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