Posts Tagged ‘genetic mutation’
Gene variant linked to endometriosis
YALE (US) — Researchers may have identified a genetic basis of endometriosis, a condition that causes millions of women chronic pelvic pain and infertility. Continue…
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Health & Medicine - Jan 12, 2012 17:52 - 0 Comments
Mutation tied to cancer risk in young men
UNC-CHAPEL HILL / U. MICHIGAN (US) — After a 20-year quest to find a genetic driver for prostate cancer that strikes men at younger ages, researchers have zeroed in on a rare, inherited mutation. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 22, 2011 9:51 - 0 Comments
Schizophrenia pops up in memory genes
CARDIFF (US) — Genetic mutations that cause schizophrenia could be linked to systems in the brain responsible for learning and memory, a study suggests. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 4, 2011 8:41 - 1 Comment
Risk varies for women in breast cancer families
U. MELBOURNE (AUS) / STANFORD (US) — Mothers, sisters, and daughters from breast cancer families with known genetic mutations do not all share the same high risk of developing the disease. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 1, 2011 11:34 - 0 Comments
Single test for many cancer mutations
U. WASHINGTON-SEATTLE (US) — More patients with ovarian cancer carry mutations predisposed to cancer—and in more genes—than previously thought. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jul 25, 2011 8:49 - 0 Comments
‘Freaky’ mouse battles poison—and wins
RICE (US) — A genetic mutation evolved over millennia has turned the ordinary house mouse into Mighty Mouse—with the power to resist common poison. (more…)
Top Stories - Jul 21, 2011 12:20 - 0 Comments
No coat, no egg: Why some sperm fail
UC DAVIS (US) — Sperm that lack a special protein coating have trouble reaching the egg. The discovery could open up new ways to screen and treat couples for infertility. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 20, 2011 11:03 - 1 Comment
Mutant fly gene linked to mental disability
EMORY (US) — The same genetic mutation that makes it hard from fruit flies to climb and use their wings also appears to play a role in inherited intellectual disability in humans. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 12, 2011 15:09 - 0 Comments
Protein tail crucial to membrane fusion
RICE U. (US) — New findings shed light on the role that a protein plays in a group of hereditary neurological disorders that affects 20,000 people in the U.S. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jun 29, 2011 14:30 - 1 Comment
Disorderly enzyme fights off body slams
USC (US) — An enzyme’s random behavior is crucial to antibody diversity and how the immune system works to keep the body healthy. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jun 14, 2011 9:40 - 0 Comments
Genetic disease born of faulty splicing
BROWN U. (US) — As many as one-third of hereditary diseases are caused at least in part by pre-mRNA splicing problems, more than double what was previously thought. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 4, 2011 10:11 - 0 Comments
Assembly error provokes fatal disease
INDIANA U. (US) — Stopping the production of a chain-like molecule the body uses to store glucose could lead to treatment for a rare but deadly disease in teenagers. (more…)
