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• Why some monkeys don’t get AIDS when infected with SIV

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Washington, Dec 5 (ANI): Researchers have taken a step towards understanding how some species of monkeys such as sooty mangabeys and African green monkeys do not get AIDS when infected with SIV, the simian equivalent of HIV.In two different studies, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, ...
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• Research map suggests functioning of immune system altered by staph infections

  
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  Infectious disease specialists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have been able to map the gene profiles of children with severe Staphylococcus aureus infections . The research map has been able to provide critical insights as to how the immune system of humans gets programmed for responding to the pathogen. It ...
  2 days ago

• Copy that! DNA underwrites the diametric model of mental illness

  
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  The imprinted brain theory had two distinct origins, both in the late 1990s. First, I developed the idea that Freuds id and ego might be the psychological agents of paternally- and maternally-active imprinted genes respectively, plus X chromosome genes on the mothers side. Imprinted genes are those which are ...
  3 days ago

• S-methylmethionine may fight liver damage from acetaminophen

  
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  Med.Stanford.edu - A well-known Eastern medicine supplement - S-methylmethionine (SMM) - may help avoid the most common cause of liver transplantation, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The finding came as a surprise to the scientists, who used a number of advanced ...
  1 week ago

• New discovery could make plants disease resistant and high-yielding

  
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  Washington, November 22 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have shown how a family of genes are responsible for production of ethylene gas, a discovery that could make plants disease resistant, able to survive and thrive in difficult terrain, increase yields, and other useful agronomical outcomes. This discovery of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Its a gas: New discovery may lead to heartier, high-yielding plants

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  In a research report published in the November 2009 issue of the journal GENETICS ( http://www.genetics.org ), scientists show how a family of genes (1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase, or ACS genes) are responsible for production of ethylene.
  2 weeks ago

• NanoString Technologies announces research collaboration with th...

  
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  (Bioscribe) NanoString Technologies Inc., a privately held life sciences company marketing a molecular barcoding detection system, today announced that it is collaborating with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to investigate molecular networks involved in immune response and other important biological processes. ...
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• The Problem with Dieting

  
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  A recent study showed just how chronic dieting can turn someone into a food addict. Bad news for yo-yo dieters this week: according to a recent study, cycles of feast and famine can create fast-food junkies–at least in rodents. The researchers put rats on a cyclic diet of 5 days of standard rat chow, followed by 2 ...
  2 weeks ago

• One-month diesel exhaust inhalation produces hypertensive gene e...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  Background - Exposure to diesel exhaust (DE) is linked to vasoconstriction, endothelial dysfunction, and myocardial ischemia in compromised individuals. Objective - We hypothesized that DE inhalation would cause greater inflammation, hematological alterations, and cardiac molecular impairment in spontaneously ...
  2 weeks ago

• Liver proteome database resources

  
  The OpenHelix Blog — Authority: 126
  So far at OpenHelix we’ve generally been focusing on the more broad tools that are of use to the largest cross-section of biomedical researchers.  Everybody needs genome browsers pretty much at some point in their research.  However, I’ve always had a soft spot for tissue-specific resources.  Since my PhD ...
  2 weeks ago

• Antagonistic drug pairings. “… two classes of antibiotics that suppress one another.”

  
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  Roy Kishony, Associate Professor of Systems Biology from Harvard Medical School has said: “The question we asked was how can it be that two drugs in combination are less effective than one of them alone …” More from a Release dated November 13, sourced from Harvard Medical School: Study reveals why certain ...
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• Why some combination therapies backfire

  
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  Washington, Nov 14 (ANI): Combination drug therapy has become a staple for treating many infections but the treatment sometimes backfires. Scientists have now identified the reason why certain pairings are counter-productive.Doctors treat extensively drug resistant forms of tuberculosis with one drug that breaks down ...
  3 weeks ago

• Penn study provides first clear idea of how rare bone disease progresses

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  PHILADELPHIA - An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, is taking the first step in developing a treatment for a rare genetic di
  3 weeks ago

• Why chimps can’t chat

  
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  London, Nov 12 (ANI): A mutation in a gene might help explain why chimps, our nearest relative, don’t talk, claim scientists.It is known that when mutated, FOXP2 can disrupt speech and language in humans, and now the study has revealed major differences between how the human and chimp versions of the gene work, ...
  3 weeks ago

• UCLA Researchers Significantly Inhibit Growth of Ovarian Cancer Cell Lines With FDA-Approved Leukemia Drug Dasatinib (Sprycel®)

  
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  The drug dasatinib (Sprycel®), approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in patients with specific types of leukemia, significantly inhibited the growth and invasiveness of ovarian cancer cells and also promoted their death, say UCLA researchers in the November 10th issue of the British Journal of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chimpanzee and human FOXP2 compared

  
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  A new paper in Nature (Konopka et al. 2009) reports on microarray expression comparisons of human and chimpanzee-specific versions of FOXP2. The change of two amino acids in the human version has some pretty large consequences for the expression of other genes. An accompanying essay by Martin Dominguez and Pasko ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gene Expression in Entamoeba histolytica

  
  Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists — Authority: 128
  Our knowledge of the functions of different structural proteins and virulence factors in the cellular organization and pathogenesis of Entamoeba histolytica has significantly increased following the introduction of various molecular techniques that enable the manipulation of gene expression. Unfortunately, to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Gene Expression and Its Discontents: The Social Production of Chronic Disease by Rodrick Wallace, Deborah Wallace

  
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  Gene Expression and Its Discontents: The Social Production of Chronic Disease | Springer | 2009 | ISBN: 1441914811 | 227 pages | PDF | 11,5 MB Gene Expression and its Discontents examines a class of probability models describing how epigenetic context affects gene expression and organismal development, using the ...
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• Moonlighting molecules discovered

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  Since the completion of the human genome sequence, a question has baffled researchers studying gene control: How is it that humans, being far more complex than the lowly yeast, do not proportionall
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• Geneticists hunt for scleroderma triggers

  
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  Hanover, N.H. -- At its most benign, the autoimmune disease scleroderma can discolor parts of the skin of its sufferers.
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