Genetics
Yale Receives Additional $10.7 Million For Largest Study Ever On How Genes And Environment Affect Children's Health
The Yale School of Public Health has received a $10.7 million grant to expand its participation in a national study that will follow 100,000 children from before birth to age 21 to understand factors that contribute to their health and development. Last year, Yale was awarded $15 million to start the work in New Haven County. With this additional grant, mothers and children from Litchfield County, Connecticut, will be included in the project.
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NIH Selects Case Western Reserve University To Participate In National Children's Study
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has been awarded $26 million in funding to participate in The National Children's Study, the National Institutes of Health's comprehensive study on the interaction of genes and the environment on children's health. At a briefing today, NIH officials named Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine as one of 36 new and existing study centers which would recruit study volunteers from a total of 72 locations.
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National Science Foundation Grants Clemson Professors Award To Develop Nanoprobes
The National Science Foundation has granted two Clemson University professors $250,000 to research and develop nanofiber-based probes - needles that are 10 times smaller in diameter than a human hair - for medical diagnostics. The probes may save both money and time compared to more traditional methods of sampling biological fluids. Needles containing tiny fibers will work like a sponge to draw up fluids from even the smallest surface.
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Growing Role Of Molecular Diagnostics Reported In Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Novel platform technologies and key advances in genomics are rapidly driving the development of molecular diagnostics, reports Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News (GEN). The payoff for successful molecular diagnostic products can be significant as Kalorama Information predicts that this market currently exceeds $3.2 billion worldwide and will reach $5.4 billion in four years, according to an article in the October 1 issue of GEN.
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Psychological Impact Of Gene Test For Breast Cancer
Personal beliefs about inconclusive DNA testing for hereditary breast cancer are associated with cancer-related worry, and such beliefs are an especially strong predictor of whether women had been able to leave the period of DNA-testing behind, reports a study in the October issue of Genetics in Medicine, official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG). The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
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Study On Properties Of Carbon Nanotubes, Water Could Have Wide-Ranging Implications
A fresh discovery about the way water behaves inside carbon nanotubes could have implications in fields ranging from the function of ultra-tiny high-tech devices to scientists' understanding of biological processes, according to researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The findings, published in the Oct.
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19th International Symposium On Human Identification Features Advances And Applications In DNA Testing
The expanding power of DNA analysis is a key focus of this year's 19th International Symposium on Human Identification hosted by Promega Corporation. This year, keynote speaker, Dr. Sean Carroll will discuss the utility of DNA as the "Ultimate Record of Evolution.
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NIH Funding For New Epigenomics Initiative
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces funding for the new NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Program. Epigenetic processes control normal growth and development, and epigenomics is a study of epigenetic processes at a genome-wide scale. The NIH will invest more than $190 million over the next five years to accelerate this emerging field of biomedical research. The first grants will total approximately $18 million in 2008.
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Minocycline As A Promising Drug For Patients With Fragile X Syndrome Proposed By UCR Researchers
A UC Riverside-led team of biomedical scientists has found that a readily available drug called minocycline, used widely to treat acne and skin infections, can be used to treat Fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of mental impairment and the most common cause of autism. The study's findings have already impacted future therapies, with the approval of a new clinical trial in Toronto, Canada, that will test minocycline in patients with Fragile X.
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First Glimpse Of A Key DNA Repair Protein At Work
Repairing breaks in the two strands of the DNA double helix is critical for avoiding cancer. In humans and other organisms, a molecular machine called the MRN complex is responsible for finding and signaling double-strand breaks (DSBs), then launching the error-free method of DNA repair called homologous recombination. In an article in the online October 3, 2008 issue of the journal Cell, John Tainer of the Life Sciences Division at the U.S.
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Major Grant To Bolster Epigenomics Research Awarded To Broad Institute
Researchers at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT have announced that they have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to map the epigenomes of a variety of medically important cell types, including human embryonic stem cells.
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5-Year, $52.7 Million Award Supports Broad Array Of Cancer Research
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has renewed The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center's Cancer Center Support Grant, an essential step in extending the institution's elite status as a comprehensive cancer center. In the process, M. D. Anderson was awarded NCI's highest rating of "outstanding" during an intensive peer-review evaluation. The five-year renewal totals $52.
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Researchers Identify Genes Associated With Increased Gout Risk
A team of researchers from the United States and the Netherlands has identified mutations in three genes that are associated with high levels of uric acid in the blood, which is a risk factor for gout. The team developed a genetic risk score composed of the number of uric acid-increasing mutations that each person carries (0 to 6), which was associated with up to a 40-fold increased risk for developing gout when comparing persons at lowest and highest risk.
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Key Role In Largest US Children's Study To Be Played By UT Health Science Center At Houston
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston will play a key role in local recruitment for the largest child health study in the United States. The National Children's Study will follow 100,000 children across the United States from before birth through age 21 to identify genetic and environmental factors that contribute to health disorders and conditions of childhood and adulthood. Across Harris County, 2,000 women will be recruited during pregnancy.
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MitoAction.org Improves Mitochondrial Disease Awareness
The mitochondria act as the "powerhouse" of the cell to produce energy for the body to live. On Wednesday, September 24th, international families and friends joined together to "Light a Light for Mito", supporting all who are afflicted and remembering the infants, children and adults who have lost their battle with mitochondrial disease.
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Intestinal Response To Infection Driven By DNA Of Good Bacteria
A new study shows that the DNA of so-called "good bacteria" that normally live in the intestines may help defend the body against infection. The findings, available Oct. 2 online in the journal Immunity, are reported by Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D., and her colleagues in the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.
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Epstein-Barr Protein Contributes To Cancer
A protein in the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) interferes with cellular processes that would normally prevent the preservation of damaged DNA, thereby promoting cancer development, according to an article released on October 2, 2008 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens. EBV is a common herpesvirus in humans. Latent infection with this virus has previously been associated with several types of cancer.
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Odor Attraction Among Different Wildtype Drosophila
Vinegar flies (Drosophila melanogaster) show a highly selective behavior towards odor stimuli. A series of behavioral studies showed that a single olfactory stimulus is often not sufficient for immediate attraction to potential food sources or oviposition sites. Interestingly, the behavior differed between investigated D. melanogaster varieties, so-called "wildtypes".
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Mysterious Snippets Of DNA Withstand Eons Of Evolution, Stanford Study Finds
gSmall stretches of seemingly useless DNA harbor a big secret, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. There's one problem: We don't know what it is. Although individual laboratory animals appear to live happily when these genetic ciphers are deleted, these snippets have been highly conserved throughout evolution.
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New Research Reveals New Roots For Chocolate
A new study published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, October 1, revolutionizes the long-held beliefs about cacao - the tree on which cocoa is grown. For hundreds of years, scientists, historians, chocolate experts and academics have all believed that chocolate came from one of three types of cacao - Criollo, Forastero or Trinitario. The study, "Geographic and Genetic Population Differentiation of the Amazonian Chocolate Tree (Theobroma l.
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