Posts Tagged ‘methylation’
How estrogen turns on genes in breast cancer
USC (US) — New research has determined the key process by which estrogen, the female sex hormone, activates genes in breast cancer cells, a finding that could eventually lead to new treatments for the disease. Continue…
Thursday, November 17, 2011 13:28 - 1 Comment
Health & Medicine - Oct 25, 2011 11:51 - 3 Comments
DNA ‘remembers’ early living conditions
MCGILL (CAN) — Family living conditions in childhood are associated with significant effects in DNA that persist well into middle age, new research shows. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 24, 2011 11:16 - 0 Comments
Test marks bladder cancer risk
BROWN (US) — A simple blood test can accurately detect markers of bladder cancer that risky exposures leave behind. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 20, 2010 16:11 - 3 Comments
‘Whole new way in’ to brain tumors
BROWN U. (US) — A specific genetic mutation appears to be at the center of a metabolic meltdown associated with lethal brain tumors known as gliomas. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 12, 2010 13:46 - 0 Comments
Trapped protein tells biology’s secrets
U. CHICAGO (US) — For the first time, researchers have observed a key step in the chemical process that repairs DNA and plays a role in biological functions that affect obesity, cancer, and diabetes. (more…)
Health & Medicine - May 10, 2010 16:29 - 11 Comments
Can mental trauma alter our biology?
U. MICHIGAN (US)—Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be caused by actual alterations in the body’s immune system triggered by exposure to a disturbing event. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 9, 2010 11:43 - 1 Comment
Tracking mercury’s ‘fingerprint’ in fish
U. MICHIGAN (US)—Scientists know that the primary way methylmercury affects people is through consumption of fish and shellfish. But how does the toxic substance get into species that live in the open ocean? (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 27, 2009 11:10 - 0 Comments
Signs of prenatal smoking in DNA
“Maternal smoking during pregnancy is not only detrimental to the health of the mom and the newborn child, but research such as this suggests that it may impact the child into adulthood and possibly even future generations as well,” says Linda Birnbaum, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
