Genetics
'Unnecessary' genetic complexity: A spanner in the works?
The massive international effort to map the entire human genome, completed in 2003, opened a new field we now know as personalized medicine.
May 5, 2020
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News tagged with genetic complexity
Immunology
Mitochondrial respiratory chain sustains inflammation
Northwestern Medicine investigators recently discovered that the mitochondrial respiratory chain—a series of protein complexes essential for a cellular respiration and energy production—is necessary for the activation ...
May 13, 2022
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Genetics
Researchers use brain cells in a dish to study genetic origins of schizophrenia
A study in Biological Psychiatry has established a new analytical method for investigating the complex genetic origins of mental illnesses using brain cells that are grown in a dish from human embryonic stem cells. Researchers ...
Oct 16, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
SWI/SNF protein complex plays role in suppressing pancreatic tumors: study
A well-known protein complex responsible for controlling how DNA is expressed plays a previously unsuspected role in preventing pancreatic cancer, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Jan 9, 2012
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Neuroscience
Cellular environment controls formation and activity of neuronal connections
Environment moulds behaviour - and not just that of people in society, but also at the microscopic level. This is because, for their function, neurons are dependent on the cell environment, the so-termed extracellular matrix. ...
May 6, 2013
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Medications
Metformin trial dramatically reduces seizures in tuberous sclerosis
A team of researchers led by UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has found that metformin—a drug commonly used to treat Type 2 diabetes—can successfully reduce ...
Mar 29, 2021
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Neuroscience
Study shows autism may be linked to different perceptions of movement in infancy
A new study from researchers at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet shows that children who go on to develop symptoms of autism have different activity in their brain's visual cortex from as early as five months ...
Mar 30, 2023
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Genetics
Genetic studies of special mice could lead to rapid human health advances
Genetic information provided by a large group of specially-designed mice could pave the way to faster human health discoveries and transform the ways people battle and prevent disease.
Feb 16, 2012
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Genetics
Scientists discover three genes associated with fatal lung disease
Researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham have discovered parts of the DNA that put some people at higher risk of an incurable lung disease called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The findings are published ...
Feb 28, 2020
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Genetics
Researchers tease out root causes of devastating genetic disease
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) afflicts as many as two million people around the world, affecting multiple organs, including lungs, brain, skin and kidneys. In about 80 percent of cases, it causes cysts and benign tumors ...
Feb 4, 2021
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