Gene mutations accumulating in cells are typical of the development of cancer. Finnish researchers have found that a similar accumulation of mutations occurs also in some patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
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A new study provides some of the first links between relatively common mutations in the blood cells of elderly humans and atherosclerosis.
Jan 19, 2017
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In a study to determine whether induced neural stem cells (iNSCs), a type of somatic cell directly differentiated into neural stem cells, could exert therapeutic effects when transplanted into mice modeled with ischemic stroke, ...
Oct 11, 2016
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A gene that scientific dogma insists is inactive in adults actually plays a vital role in preventing the underlying cause of most heart attacks and strokes, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have ...
May 17, 2016
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On Feb. 1, Britain's fertility regulator approved the country's first research application to use a new gene editing technique known as Crispr on human embryos.
Feb 3, 2016
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Every cell in the human body contains a copy of the human genome. Through the course of a lifetime all cells are thought to acquire mutations in their genomes. Some of the mutational processes generating these mutations do ...
Nov 9, 2015
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Walt Whitman's famous line, "I am large, I contain multitudes," has gained a new level of biological relevance.
Oct 1, 2015
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(Medical Xpress)—Perhaps the boldest attempt to date at a single unified explanation of cancer is that offered by Albert Szent-Gyorgi in his classic book, The Living State. That was over 40 years ago. His insights on the ...
Telomeres are short stretches of repeated nucleotides that protect the ends of chromosomes. In somatic cells, these protective sequences become shorter with each cellular replication until a critical length is reached, which ...
Apr 10, 2015
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DNA sequences were once thought to be identical from cell to cell, but it's increasingly understood that mutations can arise during brain development that affect only certain groups of brain cells. A technique developed at ...
Jan 7, 2015
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