The tweaking of genetic material that instructs immune cell function may be able to slow or stop the progression of disease, research by A*STAR suggests.
Nov 4, 2015
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Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center have discovered a new species which is helping them understand epigenetics: all individuals of the marbled crayfish examined so far have been female. They reproduce by parthenogenesis, ...
Nov 2, 2015
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Balanced chromosomal abnormalities (BCAs), a category of structural changes to the human genome, may account for a large portion of birth defects related to brain development and function, according to research presented ...
Oct 11, 2015
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In the last thirty years it has been described in the field of oncology a large number of mutations in genes involved in multiple cellular pathways. The current ability to sequence all the genetic material of a tumor implies ...
Oct 8, 2015
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A photograph may reveal how something looks, but direct observation can divulge how the objects behave. The difference can mean life or death, especially when it comes to fighting human disease.
Sep 28, 2015
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Researchers at the University of Bonn have discovered how cells in the body can detect the genetic material of so-called retroviruses. The pathogen of the immunodeficiency disease AIDS, the HI-1 virus, also belongs to this ...
Sep 8, 2015
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Autopsies of nearly every patient with the lethal neurodegenerative disorder amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and many with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), show pathologists telltale clumps of a protein called TDP-43. ...
Aug 6, 2015
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In the most severe form of male infertility, men do not make any measurable levels of sperm. This condition, called azoospermia, affects approximately 1 percent of the male population and is responsible for about a sixth ...
Jul 1, 2015
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Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found that a type of genetic material called "microRNA" plays surprisingly different roles in the formation of memory in animal models. In some ...
Jun 30, 2015
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People whose chromosomes contain the DNA of the roseola virus are three times more likely to suffer from angina, according to a new study by researchers from the Université Laval Faculty of Medicine, the CHU de Québec Research ...
Jun 16, 2015
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