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Repairing Articular Cartilage Defects With an Injectable Gel Engineered With Gene Modified BMSCs
April 23, 2013 Tissue engineering combined with gene therapy technology has the potential to manage the repair of defective articular cartilage. In this study, through minimally invasive injection methods the ... > full story -
Epigenetic Changes Shed Light on Biological Mechanism of Autism
April 23, 2013 Scientists have identified patterns of epigenetic changes involved in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by studying genetically identical twins who differ in autism traits. The study is the largest of ... > full story -
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Genetics Defines a Distinct Liver Disease
April 21, 2013 A large-scale genetic study has defined the relationship between primary sclerosing cholangitis and other autoimmune ... > full story -
Quest for Edible Malarial Vaccine Leads to Other Potential Medical Uses for Algae
April 19, 2013 Can scientists rid malaria from the Third World by simply feeding algae genetically engineered with a vaccine? That's the question biologists sought to answer after they demonstrated last May that ... > full story -
Researchers Identify and Block Protein That Interferes With Appetite-Suppressing Hormone
April 17, 2013 Researchers have both identified a protein that interferes with the brain's response to the appetite-regulation hormone leptin and created a compound that blocks the protein's action -- a potential ... > full story -
Testing Lung Cancer Drugs and Therapies in Mice
April 17, 2013 Researchers have designed a genetically engineered mouse for use in the study of human lung squamous cell carcinoma ... > full story -
Plant Protein Shape Puzzle Solved by Molecular 3-D Model
April 15, 2013 Researchers believe they have solved a puzzle that has long vexed science. The researchers provide the first three-dimensional model of an enzyme that links a simple sugar, glucose, into long-chain ... > full story -
Autism Model in Mice Linked With Genetics
April 15, 2013 For the first time, researchers have linked autism in a mouse model of the disease with abnormalities in specific regions of the animals’ ... > full story -
Bacterial Security Agents Go Rogue
April 14, 2013 CRISPR, a system of genes that bacteria use to defend themselves against viruses, has been found to be involved in helping some bacteria evade the mammalian immune system. Scientists have shown that ... > full story -
How Alzheimer's Could Occur: Wrong Signal for Cell Division?
April 11, 2013 A new hypothesis has been developed on how Alzheimer's disease could occur. Protein spheres in the nucleus give the wrong signal for cell division. This may explain the degeneration and death of ... > full story
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