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Mutated Gene Causes Death Of Nerves In Brain; Identification Of First Glutamate Receptor Linked With Neurodegeneration
August 21, 1997 — A gene responsible for the degeneration and death of certain nerve cells in the brain has been cloned, yielding information that may be useful for further studies of such neurodegenerative diseases ... > full story -
Newly Discovered Human Protein Provides Important Target For Cancer Therapy
August 20, 1997 — The discovery of a key molecule linked to the immortalization of human tumor cells provides an important new target for anti-cancer drug design. Researchers led by Dr. Robert A. Weinberg of the ... > full story -
Evolution Re-Sculpted Animal Limbs By Genetic Switches Once Thought Too Drastic For Survival
August 18, 1997 — Extremely powerful genes that govern the shape of an embryo from the earliest stages of development have been tinkered with by nature over the course of evolution to create the enormously wide range ... > full story -
New Gene May Intensify Breast Cancer Growth
August 16, 1997 — Scientists in the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered a new gene that is pivotal to a crucial metabolic pathway linked to the ... > full story -
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Huntington's Disease Findings Pave Way For Potential Cure
August 11, 1997 — Nearly 20 years ago, Columbia University researchers observed brain cell changes in Huntington's disease patients. Today, the significance of those changes has finally been explained--and the new ... > full story -
Resistance To Leptin Contributes To Obesity
August 6, 1997 — Insensitivity to the protein leptin, which helps the body regulate its fat stores, contributes to obesity in mice according to the first formal study of leptin intolerance, report scientists in the ... > full story -
Endocrine Disrupters: Dioxin Causes Reproductive System Defects
August 1, 1997 — Dioxin, a toxic chemical that enters the food chain and persists in the environment for years causes a vaginal defect in unborn female rats, reproductive biologists from the University of Maryland ... > full story -
Researchers Probe Mechanism Behind Heartbeat
July 22, 1997 — Scientists at The University of Texas-Houston Medical School and the University of Alberta in Canada have determined the three-dimensional structure of cardiac troponin C (cardiac TnC), a protein ... > full story -
Half Of Ovarian Cancers Linked To More Ovulatory Cycles
July 6, 1997 — A biological link between half of all ovarian cancers and the number of times a woman ovulates over her lifetime has been identified by researchers at Duke University Medical Center, suggesting that ... > full story -
Inhibiting Cell-Death Gene May Slow ALS Progression
July 2, 1997 — Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital have found that a cell-death gene may play a role in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease). In the July 3Nature, they ... > full story -
NIH Researchers Find First Parkinson's Disease Gene
June 29, 1997 — Scientists at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have for the first time precisely identified a gene abnormality that causes some cases of ... > full story -
Combination Therapy In HIV+ Children
June 6, 1997 — A combination of stavudine (d4t), didanosine (ddI), and indinavir was well-tolerated in HIV-positive children and showed powerful anti-viral effects, according to research out of the Baylor College ... > full story
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