UPCI scientists reveal how cancer cells hijack DNA repair pathways to stay alive
Research by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute has revealed how cancer cells hijack DNA repair pathways to prevent telomeres, the endcaps of chromosomes, from shortening, thus...
View ArticleLength of telomeres may reveal if vitamin D and omega-3 supplements improve...
The length of your telomeres appears to be a window into your heart health and longevity, and scientists are measuring them to see if vitamin D and omega-3 supplements really improve both.
View ArticleResearchers create first mouse model for common form of infant leukemia
After nearly two decades of unsuccessful attempts, researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine and the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have created the first mouse model for the...
View ArticleVeterans Affairs researchers discover alleles of certain genes that offer...
Veterans Affairs researchers have found that certain forms, or alleles, of a gene known to play a key role in the immune system appear to offer protection from Gulf War illness (GWI). Further, they...
View ArticleResearchers create new Zika replicon system to find ways to combat virus
New research from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, in collaboration with Southwest University in Chongqing, China and the University of Leuven in Belgium, have developed a way to...
View ArticleStudy offers genetic explanation why cancer occurs commonly in males than...
In a new study, a group of Boston scientists, including researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, offer a genetic explanation for the age-old conundrum of why cancer is more common in males than...
View ArticleEinstein researcher receives $7.5 million NIH grant to study genetics of...
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Bernice Morrow, Ph.D., at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and collaborators at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia a five-year, $7.5 million grant...
View ArticleScientists develop new technology that sheds light on HIV infection
A group of researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation and the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, have developed a new technology that sheds light on the HIV infection and offers a first...
View ArticleResearchers engineer cells with 'built-in genetic circuit' that can inhibit...
Researchers at the University of Southampton have engineered cells with a 'built-in genetic circuit' that produces a molecule that inhibits the ability of tumours to survive and grow in their low...
View ArticleScientists identify microrna that provides clues for quieting auditory...
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have identified a small RNA (microRNA) that may be essential to restoring normal function in a brain circuit associated with the "voices" and other...
View ArticleResearchers working to develop pill for inherited bleeding disorders
Motivated by the tribulations of hemophilia patients and their families, researchers funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering are working to develop a pill to treat...
View ArticleExperimental drug improves survival, growth outcomes in mouse model of...
Drugs capable of activating silenced genes improve survival and growth outcomes in a mouse model of Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare and incurable childhood disease, according to a study funded by the...
View ArticlePotential drug could become first effective treatment option for Prader-Willi...
Duke Health researchers have identified a drug-like small molecule that, in animal experiments, appears to be an effective treatment for a genetic disorder called Prader-Willi syndrome.
View ArticleNorthwestern Medicine scientists identify targeted molecular therapy that...
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered the genetic driver of a rare and lethal childhood leukemia and identified a targeted molecular therapy that halts the proliferation of leukemic cells.
View ArticleArchaeologist discovers 800-year-old genomes from bacterial infection in...
Eight hundred years ago, in a hardscrabble farming community on the outskirts of what was once one of the fabled cities of the ancient world, Troy, a 30-year-old woman was laid to rest in a stone-lined...
View ArticleRoswell Park study provides new insights into gene mutations that can lead to...
Predisposition to cancer and cancer progression can result from gene mutations that cause elevated rates of genetic damage.
View ArticleNatural pre-pregnancy progesterone benefits women with history of unexplained...
Women who have had two or more unexplained miscarriages can benefit from natural progesterone treatment before pregnancy, a new a study shows.
View ArticleResearchers show how adult learning is impaired in females using mouse models...
Neurodevelopmental disorders like autism very likely have their origin at the dawn of life, with the emergence of inappropriate connectivity between nerve cells in the brain.
View ArticlePopularity of non-invasive prenatal testing increasing among pregnant women
Genetic counselors are playing a greater role in areas of medicine in the wake of advancement in genomic technology.
View ArticleResearchers reveal central role of new key players in meiosis
Where would we be without meiosis and recombination? For a start, none of us sexually reproducing organisms would be here, because that's how sperm and eggs are made. And when meiosis doesn't work...
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