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Gene Affecting the Ability to Sleep Discovered in Fruit Flies
February 20, 2012 — On the surface, it's simple: when night falls, our bodies get sleepy. But behind the scenes, a series of complex molecular events, controlled by our genes, is hard at work to make us groggy. Now, ... > full story -
Discovery Predicts Patient Sensitivity to Important Drug Target in Deadly Brain Cancer
February 6, 2012 — A recent discovery enables the prediction of patient sensitivity to proposed drug therapies for glioblastoma – the most common and most aggressive malignant brain tumor in ... > full story -
New Virtual Tool May Provide More Accurate Diagnosis of Genetic Mutations
February 6, 2012 — DNA sequencing to detect genetic mutations can aid in the diagnosis and selection of treatment for cancer. Current methods of testing DNA samples, Sanger sequencing and pyrosequencing, occasionally ... > full story -
Researchers Develop Gene Therapy That Could Correct a Common Form of Blindness
January 23, 2012 — A new gene therapy has the potential to treat a common form of blindness that strikes both youngsters and adults. The technique works by replacing a malfunctioning gene in the eye with a normal ... > full storyMore: -
Saving the Snow Leopard With Stem Cells
January 23, 2012 — The survival of the endangered snow leopard is looking promising thanks to scientists who have, for the first time, produced embryonic stem-like cells from the tissue of an adult ... > full story -
Another Clue in the Mystery of Autism
January 19, 2012 — A study of discordant twins -- twins in which one has autism spectrum disorder and one doesn't -- finds the lower birth weight twins are more than three times as likely to have ASD than heavier ... > full story -
Why Does the Same Mutation Kill One Person but Not Another?
December 7, 2011 — The vast majority of genetic disorders (schizophrenia or breast cancer, for example) have different effects in different people. Moreover, an individual carrying certain mutations can develop a ... > full story -
Genetic Buzzer-Beater Genes May Save Fish
November 29, 2011 — Two distinct populations of rainbow trout -- one in Alaska, the other in Idaho -- share a genetic trait that could have huge implications for fisheries conservation and management, an eight-member ... > full story -
Blood Stem Cells Engineered to Fight Melanoma
November 28, 2011 — Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that blood stem cells can be engineered to create cancer-killing T-cells that seek out and attack a human ... > full story -
Not One, Not Two, Not Three, but Four Clones: First Quantum Cloning Machine to Produce Four Copies
November 6, 2011 — Scientists in China have produced a theory for a quantum cloning machine able to produce several copies of the state of a particle at atomic or sub-atomic scale, or quantum state. The advance could ... > full story
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