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Dividing Nerve Cells Could Trigger Alzheimer's Disease

...amyloid plaques. Many of the neurons had increased chromosome number. The cortex and the hippocampus regions were the most affected in the lab mice. These are the same areas that are affected by AD. "The cell cycle markers mimic the human situation rather well," said Dr. Herrup. "This opens a range of new exper...

Designer Rats Reveal Possible Heart Disease Genes

...tical designer rat, with one important change: one chromosome from the parental, hypertensive rat was substituted with the homologous chromosome from a healthy rat. In this way, the team generated 22 unique designer rat strains, each bearing one...

Sperm Retrieval, Difficult in Klinefelter’s Syndrome Patients after 35 Year

...ch a male patient has 22 chromosomes with one X, Y chromosome and an extra X chromosome. Normally a male has 22 chromosomes with one X and one Y chromosome. The patients suffering from this disorder has to undergo testicular sperm extraction before the age of 35 years. The most important feature of this di...

Researchers Identify Gene Connected To Bipolar Disorder

...he UK and Bulgaria implicates a gene called Fat on chromosome four. This gene plays a role in cell adhesion in the brain. People with the newly identified polymorphism, or form of this gene, appear to be at twice the risk of developing bipolar disorder, though it is not yet clear exactly why, says Blair. Mor...

Scientists Closer To Identifying Gene Connected To Alzheimer's

...g the risk of contracting Alzheimer's disease. The chromosome 10 region appears // to be involved in the process...an 1,400 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on chromosome 10 to home in on susceptibility genes for late-onset Alzheimer's disease. Since most DNA do not m...

Genetic Variation In Bitter-Taste Receptor Gene Increases Alcoholic Risk

... taste receptor gene, called TAS2R16 is located on chromosome 7. Researchers at the Washington University Sch...individuals. "In earlier work, we had identified chromosome 7 as a region where there was likely to be a gene influencing alcoholism risk. There's a cluster of ...

Little Known DNA Repair Enzyme May Be A Tumor Suppressor Gene

...r, the human Rev3L gene is located in a segment of chromosome 6 which is home for multiple tumor suppressor gene...mosomal instabilities in this particular region of chromosome 6. "Although it requires further investigation, we believe that mutations in this part of chromosom...

Telomerase Vital In Maintaining Ability of Stem Cell to Multiply

...mosomes that protect genetic information while the chromosome is undergoing division. These are basically "repet...mosomes. Every time a cell undergoes division, the chromosome ends shorten ultimately exposing the genetic information in the stem cell and preventing further div...

Do Celebrities Conquer Cancer Better?

...or hereditary breast cancer- BRCA1 gene located on chromosome 17 and the BRCA2 gene on chromosome 13. Currently genetic tests are available to detect an individual’s risk of developing breast cancer...

Malaria’s Invisibility Code Identifie

...somes are where the genes are generally found. The chromosome packaging regulates the var genes, according to th...place at the very edge of the nucleus, wherein the chromosome ends surround the promoter which contain the silenced var genes. The art of cloning big DNA sequence...

Genes Affect Drinking Behavior Of Smokers

...g behavior of tobacco users is related to the same chromosome regions which are connected with addiction to alco...cs are also determined by these genes. The loci or chromosome regions which have been identified as having an influence on the consumption of alcohol were close t...

Viscosity of Women cervix determines sex of child

...erm hard to migrate and reach the ovum. But, the Y chromosome bearing sperm is lighter and has the capacity to swim faster through the thickened cervix and reaches the ovum which increases the probability of getting male child. ...

Predictor of child's sex : Conception Time

...that in viscous fluids sperms bearing the Y (male) chromosome swim faster than those bearing the X (female) chromosome as per the researchers. Women whose cervical mucus is relatively viscous would not only have more di...

U.S. launching cancer gene-mapping pilot

...ies -- not just of specific gene mutations, but of chromosome rearrangements, faulty on/off switches and other abnormalities....

Chromosome Ends Trigger DNA Damage Response For Telomere Protection

.../processing machinery that promotes formation of a chromosome end protection complex. Telomeres, the ends of li...elieve that the localization of repair proteins to chromosome ends, and detection of telomeres as damage at this precise time are necessary to trigger the re-form...

Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) Has An Answer Now!

...mia. Ionizing radiation is believed to trigger the chromosome abnormality that leads to CML. It takes years to develop CML....

Anonymous Sperm Donor Traced On Internet

...milyTreeDNA.com, with a database of over 45,000 Y chromosome signatures, is running 2400 projects to trace particular surnames. About 25,000 people have been born from donated sperm in the UK in the past 15 years. Also, around 90,000 donor inseminations happen in the US every year. The news will be especiall...

Chromosome 6 has the Dyslexia Gene

... The gene called 'DCDC2' gene is located on human chromosome 6 according to the researchers. The researchers fo...gene," said Gruen. "The genetic alteration on this chromosome is a large deletion of a regulatory region. The gene itself is expressed in reading centers of the b...

Indian Doctor Wants March 21st To Be Celebrated As World Down Syndrome Day

...y the uniqueness of the syndrome as the Trisomy 21 chromosome is used synonymously with Down Syndrome. Down Syndrome is the most common cause of mental retardation and malformation that affects some newborns. The objective of WDSD is to commemorate, create and accomplish a level of awareness and understanding ...

Researchers Identify Sipa 1 Gene, Responsible For Cancer Metastasis

...of a putative metastasis efficiency locus on mouse chromosome 19. This chromosome region, which is orthologous to human 11q12-13, harbors a known metastasis suppressor gene Brms1. Ho...

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