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Gene Hunters at Johns Hopkins Close In On Lou Gehrig's Disease

...at risk of developing the disease. Genes behind inherited forms of ALS--responsible for about only 5 percent of all cases--were discovered a decade ago, but no genetic roots had been found for sporadic ALS, which occurs in people without a family history of the disease. In the Johns Hopkins study, describ...

Turmeric in the Fight Against Prostate Cancer

...arch. For currently there is no treatment for this inherited disorder. In the experiments on mice it was found the compound could help muscle become much stronger, and they had near-normal levels of a vital molecule crucial for keeping nerve cells healthy. While a great deal more research needs to be don...

Fruit Crop Fungicide Induces Permanent Changes in Mating Behavior

...les. For the first time, Crews and Gore show the inherited epigenetic change can affect behavior. “The important thing about this research is that it takes epigenetics to the brain,” said Crews, the Ashbel Smith Professor of Integrative Biology in the College of Natural Sciences. “The female is able to det...

Switching Genes to Overdrive Improves Muscular Dystrophy Symptoms in Mice

...rm of the disease. The cause is a mutation, either inherited or occurring spontaneously, that affects a muscle protein called dystrophin. Spiegelman, whose laboratory discovered PGC-1alpha in 1998, led the new study which was aimed at determining whether increasing levels of PGC-1alpha in the muscles of mice...

The Origin of the Brain Lies in a Worm

...y. "It looks like Platynereis and vertebrates have inherited the organisation of their CNS from their remote common ancestors." The findings provide strong evidence for a theory that was first put forward by zoologist Anton Dohrn in 1875. It states that vertebrate and annelid CNS are of common descent and ve...

Researchers Discovers DNA Repair as Key to Huntington's Disease

...also showed that the expansion of the tracts -- an inherited characteristic -- also caused toxicity in cells that cannot expand, such as nerve cells. The result is that cell death acceleration is directly proportional to the additional repeated lengths. In a further step, the team eliminated a key enzyme (OG...

Key Found to Kill Cystic Fibrosis Superbug

... be fatal for people with cystic fibrosis (CF), an inherited disease where the lungs become clogged with thick mucus, often leading to chronic respiratory infections. The team of researchers has identified a weakness in the armour that protects the B. cenocepacia bacterium from the effects of antibiotics. Th...

World’s First Attempt To Restore Sight Using Gene Therap

...up operated on 12 young adults with LCA, a type of inherited childhood blindness caused by a single abnormal gene. Leber's Congenital Amaurosis is not a single specific disorder. It is the term used for a group of conditions that have in common, abnormality of retinal receptors, which result in severe vision...

Gene Mutations Leave Caucasians Prone To Heart Diseases And Diabetes

...ly, the region was not found to be associated with inherited tendencies to have high cholesterol or high blood ... of heart attack into a DNA-based test for gauging inherited risk of (heart attack)," the company was quoted. ANN/V...

Landmark Study Prompts Rethink of Genetic Code

...as it is needed for engineering new treatments for inherited disease. The collaborative study focussed on 44 strategically chosen targets which together account for about one percent of the genome, or about 30 million of the three billion "rungs" in the DNA double-helix ladder. The data is being placed in th...

Myelin Associated With Early Evolution of Huntington's Disease

...ptoms. Huntington's disease (HD) is an uncommon, inherited neurological disorder that eventually deprives individuals of their ability to be in charge of their movement, behaviour and thinking. It affects around 30,000 people in the U.S., with another 150,000 at risk. While it is known that HD is caused by...

Boffins Identify Fifth Gene Behind Joubert Syndrome

... a new genetic cause for Joubert syndrome (JS), an inherited condition that affects development of the cerebellum and brainstem-the structures in the brain that coordinate movements and regulate basic functions such as breathing, swallowing, heart rate and consciousness. This is the fifth gene that has been...

Exposure to Chlorinated Swimming Pools Could Increase Asthma Risk in Children

... month, but his condition is improving. "He has inherited my lungs,'' Riley said. Other famous swimmers to suffer from asthma include Susie Maroney, Dawn Fraser, Matthew Dunn and Grant Hackett. The European study, which involved 341 schoolchildren, pointed out that asthma rates were up to 10 times hig...

New Gene Discovery Raises Hope for Childhood Blindness Cure

...mutated, causes one of the most universal forms of inherited blindness in babies . Scientists at the Universi...nce that defects of the cilia are a major cause of inherited blindness. In that sense, we can consider this a 'lucky thirteenth' as we are building a much cleare...

Genetic Risk Factor for Coeliac Disease Identified.

...illness, stress, or post-trauma. There is a strong inherited (genetic) risk. . Professor David van Heel, chief investigator in the study, said; We previously knew that coeliac individuals had a specific tissue type which recognised wheat proteins. We did not know why healthy individuals who had the same tissu...

Ages Eases the Pain of Migraine

...omen, and one in 20 men, report suffering from the inherited disorder that is associated with nausea, vomiting, numb hands and a sensitivity to light. Doctors are still searching for treatments. Triptan medications are available in the market but it is not suitable for people with heart disease and it does n...

New Findings in Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein

...X syndrome(FXS). Fragile X syndrome, the leading inherited form of mental retardation is mainly caused by a mutation in the FMR1 gene on the X chromosome, leading to the loss of FMRP, which is abundantly expressed in the brain and testes. Without this protein, brain development is hampered and nerve cells ca...

Dystonia Awareness Week: 4 -11 June, 2007

...in childhood, it is probably due to affected genes inherited from parents. Inheritance of generalized dystonia...springs. Adults who develop dystonia may also have inherited a defective gene, though it is difficult to identify. On the other hand, not everyone who inherits a...

Researchers Identify Genetic Mutations for Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer

...le chromosome that are closely enough linked to be inherited usually as a unit), suggesting a founder effect (a population group with an unusual frequency of a gene due to there having been only a small number of original members, one or more of whom had that gene). All four families originate from the southea...

Cigarette Smoke Alters DNA in Sperm, Genetic Damage Could Pass to Offspring

...sperm cells, alterations that could potentially be inherited by offspring. The results of their study are published in the June 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. 'Here we are looking at male germline mutations, which are mutations in the DNA of sperm. If i...

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