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New Agent to Fight Genetic Disorders Found

...ive genes. Examples include: Huntington’s disease, familial high cholesterol, polycystic kidney disease, some instances of glaucoma and colorectal cancer, and neurofibromatosis, among others. "Zorro-LNA is a new substance that targets DNA and turns off genes," said co-author Edvard Smith of the Karolinska I...

Recurrence of SIDS Overestimated: Study

...SIDS was accurate, including an autopsy, tests for familial causes of unexplained death and determining possible homicide. However, all eight studies failed to meet these three criteria. This failure, the researchers state would have resulted in the risk of SIDS recurrence being overestimated. All eight s...

First-Ever Robotic Pancreatectomy Performed at UIC

...n a pancreatic pseudocyst. Since then, his chronic familial pancreatitis has caused sporadic severe bouts of pain and left him unable to continue his work as a prison guard. During surgery, physicians inserted the laparoscope and robotic arms of the da Vinci surgical system through five small incisions in t...

UK Scientists Identify Gene Mutations That Trigger Breast Cancer

... Unlike other genetic variations associated with familial breast cancer, the mutations in these four new genes are relatively common in the population and appear to form part of a bigger community of genes that play a role in breast-cancer predisposition. However, the wider significance of the genetic dis...

Drink, Binge and the Genetic Link

...rtain endophenotypes has helped to establish familial alcohol-dependence. Although a physical trait, end...atterns, therefore, are established markers of familial alcohol-dependence. Genetic profiling through technologies like microarrays , also known as gen...

Benoits Son Suffered from Fragile X Syndrome, a Rare Mental Disability

... than females. This condition is the leading known familial cause of mental retardation in the United States. Language delays, behavioral problems, autism or autistic-like behavior (including poor eye contact and hand-flapping), enlarged external genitalia (macroorchidism), large or prominent ears, hyperact...

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