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• Swine flu cases fall in U.S. but may rise with holiday travel

  
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  Mutated form of the virus detected in three Norwegians By Rob Stein The Washington Post Saturday, November 21, 2009 The level of swine flu activity in the United States appears to be declining, although officials are worried about another increase of cases during the Thanksgiving holiday when many people travel ...
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• Gene mutation ‘key to glioma brain cancer growth’

  
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  London, Nov 23 (ANI): A mutated gene, called IDH1, could be the key to the development of some types of glioma brain tumour.The latest study, by US firm Agios Pharmaceuticals, has revealed that the mutation leads to hugely increased levels of a chemical in the brain, which seems to feed the cancer. According to the ...
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• H1N1 mutation found in some flu fatalities

  
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  H1N1 mutation found in some flu fatalities OSLO – Norwegian health authorities said Friday they have discovered a potentially significant mutation in the H1N1 influenza strain that could be responsible for causing the severest symptoms among those infected.“The mutation could be affecting the virus’ ability to ...
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• Mutated virus of H1N1 found in Norway

  
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  OSLO (BNO NEWS) — The Norwegian Institute of Public Health on Friday said it discovered a mutated version of the H1N1 swine flu virus.The institute analyzed samples from a number of patients as part of its surveillance of the influenza A(H1N1) virus, it said in a statement. The viruses have many similarities, ...
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• Why bird flu has not become a pandemic

  
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  Washington, Nov 19 (ANI): A new study by American and British scientists has tried to explain why bird flu has not become a pandemic disease.The report prepared by scientists from Imperial College London, the University of Reading and the University of North Carolina, USA, says that bird flu viruses would have to ...
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• Gene Mutations Linked to IBD in Children

  
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  Rare genetic mutations may trigger inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in young children, a study shows.
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• Parkinson: Researchers Identify Gene Mutations Underlying Risk for Most Common Form

  
  SALUTE DOMANI ? IL PORTALE DEL BENESSERE — Authority: 151
  Two genes containing mutations known to cause rare familial forms of parkinsonism are also associated with the more common, sporadic form of the disease where there is no family history, researchers have found. The finding came in the largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) reported to date involving ...
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• Photorecoptors. Stress. Activation. Protective response. “… first time that any protective signal within photoreceptors has been identified across such a broad range of eye diseases …”

  
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  Caroline Zeiss, Associate Professor of Comparative Medicine and Ophthalmology, from Yale School of Medicine has said: “Not only did we find that the drug activated the novel CREB1/ATF1 photoreceptor pathway, but we found that this activation was caused by stress …” “This suggests that CREB/ATF1 may be an ...
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• Genetic Tests Check Risk for Sudden Death

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 161
  If you have a relative who has suffered sudden unexplained death, postmortem genetic testing is a cost-effective way of identifying genetic mutations that may place you and other surviving family members at increased risk for potentially fatal heart rhythm disturbances, a study shows.
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• Research Sheds Light on Causes of Parkinson’s (HealthDay)

  
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  HealthDay – SUNDAY, Nov. 15 (HealthDay News) — Gene mutations linked to inherited Parkinson’s disease also appear to be connected to the more common form of the disease that strikes people whose relatives don’t have it, researchers now say. Read the rest here: (HealthDay)"> ...
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• Mayo researchers: Postmortem genetic tests following sudden death may be less expensive way to identify family members at risk

  
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  Journalists:  For links to web-video and audio files, see the bottom of this post.Mayo Clinic scientists will present research at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2009 in Orlando on Sunday, Nov. 15, showing that postmortem testing to identify genetic mutations for sudden unexplained death could ...
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• Weak link in cancer cell armour identified

  
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  Washington, Nov 13 (ANI): Researchers at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine have identified a weak link in cancer cells.They have discovered that inactivation of a DNA repair gene called Hus1 efficiently kills cells lacking p53 - a gene mutated in the majority of human cancers.Using a mouse model, ...
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• Mutations, fitness and more

  
  Telic Thoughts — Authority: 124
  Two TT commenters, Zachriel and Salvador Cordova have an interesting exchange ongoing in the open thread. Salvador initiated the discussion with this comment. In one of his comments Zachriel mentioned the genetic load concept. He also cited the following papers: Nachman & Crowell, Estimate of the ...
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• Lets Get Dumb

  
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  Since human intelligence has come so far since the Stone Age, can we say that because of nothing more than evolution we will all become geniuses in the next hundred years or so? The short answer is - no. Evolution favors only those mutations that are somehow more favorable to procreation. It doesnt make decisions ...
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• One Key Mutation Separates Humans From Apes

  
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  Humans and chimpanzees, from a genetic standpoint, are first cousins.  The difference between the two from a DNA standpoint is only like 1.2 percent of genetic material; all our other DNA is exactly the same.  It’s those few simple mutations, some of which are less than 5 million years old, that separate us from ...
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• A ’spoonful of sugar’ may reduce life expectancy

  
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  Washington, Nov 4 (ANI): If a new study on worms is anything to go by, all the sugar in your diet could spell much more than obesity and type 2 diabetes - it might take years off your life.During the study, Cynthia Kenyon of the University of California, San Francisco, found that by adding [...]
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• Genetics in Fiction @ Clarkesworld

  
  Biology in Science Fiction — Authority: 122
  Roger Moraga has a nice article in the current issue of Clarkesworld Magazine on " Modern Genetics in the World of Fiction ": Most of the time there is a certain amount of unrealistic superscience involved in the creation of speculative fiction, but as a geneticist I cant help but wonder if it is really necessary to ...
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• The Unselfish Gene: Altruism and Zombies

  
  Biology in Science Fiction — Authority: 122
  The Unselfish Gene is the first published novel of science journalist Robert D. Burns , and it sounds like a lively mixture of pulpy science fiction-horror and genetics. The novels blurb gives you a taste of that: Its love and terrorism in the time of cholera. In the mid-21st century, a form of bird flu has ...
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• Bioengineers Speed Up Evolution to Make Better Bacteria

  
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  E. coli bacterial evolution can be accelerated with the MAZE technique to produce favorable mutations Bacteria are prolific replicators, and some species can replicate into the millions in number in just a few hours. Bacteria, in the functioning of their cellular and biochemical machinery, also just happen to ...
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