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One Disease, Two Mechanisms: Genetic Root to Early-Onset Prostate Cancer Identified
February 11, 2013 — While prostate cancer is the most common cancer in elderly Western men it also, but more rarely, strikes patients aged between 35 and 50. Scientists have discovered that such early-onset prostate ... > full story -
Mouse Model Improves Understanding of Clear Cell Sarcoma
February 11, 2013 — Geneticists have engineered mice that develop clear cell sarcoma (CCS), a significant step in better understanding how this rare and deadly soft tissue cancer ... > full story -
Cell Circuits Remember Their History: Engineers Design New Synthetic Biology Circuits That Combine Memory and Logic
February 11, 2013 — Engineers have created genetic circuits in bacterial cells that not only perform logic functions, but also remember the results, which are encoded in the cell's DNA and passed on for dozens of ... > full story -
Birds Evolved Ultraviolet Vision Several Times
February 11, 2013 — Ultraviolet vision evolved at least eight times in birds from a common violet sensitive ancestor finds a new study. All of these are due to single nucleotide changes in the ... > full story -
Stem Cell Breakthrough Could Lead to New Bone Repair Therapies on Nanoscale Surfaces
February 11, 2013 — Scientists have created a new method to generate bone cells which could lead to revolutionary bone repair therapies for people with bone fractures or those who need hip replacement surgery due to ... > full story -
Therapeutic Effect of RNAi Gene Silencing Effective in Cancer Treatment, Study Suggests
February 11, 2013 — A new study shows for the first time that ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi) is effective in the treatment of cancer patients. Harnessing these molecules to silence genes involved in the ... > full story -
Molecular 'Calcium Sponge' Created to Tackle Heart Failure
February 10, 2013 — Researchers have utilized molecular genetic engineering to optimize heart performance in models of diastolic heart failure by creating an optimized protein that can aid in high-speed relaxation ... > full story -
Scientists Prevent Development of Deafness in Animals Engineered to Have Usher Syndrome
February 8, 2013 — Most cases of congenital deafness are due to a mutation in a gene that is required for normal development of the sensory hair cells in the inner ear that are responsible for detecting sound. To cure ... > full story -
Evaluating Evolutionary Rates Could Shed Light Into Functions of Uncharacterized Genes
February 8, 2013 — Genes that have roles in the same biological pathways change their rate of evolution in parallel, a finding that could be used to discover their functions, said a researcher. Humans have nearly ... > full story -
Nucleus Structure Crucial to Understanding Diseases Discovered
February 8, 2013 — Scientists from Singapore and Germany have identified that the proteins lamin A and lamin B receptor are essential for holding silent genes in their correct position at the edge of the nucleus, in ... > full story
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