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Gene Offers Clues to New Treatments for a Harmful Blood Clotting Disorder
May 8, 2013 — A gene associated with both protection against bacterial infection and excessive blood clotting could offer new insights into treatment strategies for deep-vein thrombosis -- the formation of a ... > full story -
Genes Show One Big European Family
May 7, 2013 — From Ireland to the Balkans, Europeans are basically one big family, closely related to one another for the past thousand years, according to a new study of the DNA of people from across the ... > full story -
Potential Therapeutic Target for Cushing's Disease
May 7, 2013 — Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified a protein that drives the formation of pituitary tumors in Cushing's disease, a development that may give clinicians a ... > full story -
Amplification of a Stat5 Gene Produces Excess Oncogenic Protein That Drives Prostate Cancer Spread
May 7, 2013 — Scientists have solved the mystery of why a substantial percentage of castrate-resistant metastatic prostate cancer cells contain abnormally high levels of the pro-growth protein ... > full story -
Stem Cell Researchers Move Toward Treatments for Rare Genetic Nerve Disease
May 7, 2013 — Researchers have used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) to advance disease-in-a-dish modeling of a rare genetic disorder, Ataxia Telangiectasia. Their discovery shows positive effects of drugs ... > full story -
Laminopathies: Key Components in the Disease Mechanism Identified
May 7, 2013 — Laminopathies are hereditary diseases that affect mainly the muscle tissue. These diseases include for example Emery-Dreifuss Muscular dystrophy, dilated cardiomyopathy, limb-girdle muscular ... > full story -
The Black Sea Is a Goldmine of Ancient Genetic Data
May 6, 2013 — When one marine paleoecologist was mining through vast amounts of genetic data from the Black Sea sediment record, he was amazed about the variety of past plankton species that left behind their ... > full story -
Boosting 'Cellular Garbage Disposal' Can Delay the Aging Process
May 6, 2013 — Biologists have identified a gene, previously implicated in Parkinson's disease, that can delay the onset of aging and extend the healthy life span of fruit flies. This research has important ... > full story -
New Device Can Extract Human DNA With Full Genetic Data in Minutes
May 6, 2013 — Engineers have created a device that can extract human DNA from fluid samples in a simpler, more efficient and environmentally friendly way than conventional ... > full story -
Endogenous Antibiotic Discovered in the Brain
May 6, 2013 — Scientists have discovered that immune cells in the brain can produce a substance that prevents bacterial growth: namely itaconic acid. Until now, biologists had assumed that only certain fungi ... > full story
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