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Study detects hormone receptor's key role in normal organ development and function

A discovery by UC Irvine endocrinologists about the importance of cell surface receptors for estrogen has the potential to change how researchers view the hormone's role in normal organ development and function.

28 May 2014

Study reveals loss of function of gene RARRES3 in breast cancer cells promotes metastasis to lung

A study published today in EMBO Molecular Medicine reveals that the loss of function of the gene RARRES3 in breast cancer cells promotes metastasis to the lung.

28 May 2014

Researchers develop new technology that uses HIV virus as tool to fight against hereditary diseases

For the first time researchers have succeeded in altering HIV virus particles so that they can simultaneously, as it were, 'cut and paste' in our genome via biological processes. Developed at the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University, the technology makes it possible to repair genomes in a new way.

28 May 2014

Twist Bioscience raises $26M in Series B financing, receives $5.1M DARPA contract

Twist Bioscience today announced that it raised $26 million in a Series B financing to commercialize the company's semiconductor-based synthetic gene manufacturing process.

27 May 2014

Scientists find interplay between two specific proteins crucial for flawless repair of crosslink damage

Environmental influences such as ionizing radiation, intense heat or various chemical substances damage the DNA constantly.

27 May 2014

New study of how biodiversity arises

A new study of how biodiversity arises, by evolutionary biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, shows how a mutation in a single gene during development can lead to different consequences not only in how animals' skull and jaw are shaped, but how this leads to different feeding strategies to exploit different ecological niches.

27 May 2014

Research to better understand cell defect that contributes to cancer

A research team from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry has received funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for research to better understand a cell defect that contributes to diseases such as cancer.

26 May 2014

Dieting may decrease chances for metastases in triple negative breast cancers

Calorie restriction, a kind of dieting in which food intake is decreased by a certain percentage, has been touted as way to help people live longer.

26 May 2014

Mice with 'mohawk hairstyles' reveal clues to development of autism

"Aha" moments are rare in medical research, scientists say. As rare, they add, as finding mice with Mohawk-like hairstyles.

26 May 2014

Study: Sufficient copies of SMN1 gene extend survival in animals with spinal muscular atrophy

To make up for insufficient amounts of SMN protein, the cause of the inherited neuromuscular disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), researchers have successfully delivered a replacement SMN1 gene directly to the spinal cords of animal models of SMA.

23 May 2014

Immucor's PreciseType HEA test receives FDA approval to predict blood compatibility

Immucor, Inc., a global leader in transfusion and transplantation diagnostics, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted approval for the company's PreciseType HEA test.

23 May 2014

Researchers discover how gene commonly linked to obesity contributes to weight gain

Researchers have discovered how a gene commonly linked to obesity—FTO—contributes to weight gain. The study shows that variations in FTO indirectly affect the function of the primary cilium, a little-understood hair-like appendage on brain and other cells.

23 May 2014

Researchers identify mutation in fat-storage gene that appears to increase risk for type 2 diabetes

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified a mutation in a fat-storage gene that appears to increase the risk for type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders, according to a study published online today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

23 May 2014

Genes News and Research

Study detects hormone receptor's key role in normal organ development and function

Study reveals loss of function of gene RARRES3 in breast cancer cells promotes metastasis to lung

Researchers develop new technology that uses HIV virus as tool to fight against hereditary diseases

Twist Bioscience raises $26M in Series B financing, receives $5.1M DARPA contract

Scientists find interplay between two specific proteins crucial for flawless repair of crosslink damage

New study of how biodiversity arises

Research to better understand cell defect that contributes to cancer

Dieting may decrease chances for metastases in triple negative breast cancers

Mice with 'mohawk hairstyles' reveal clues to development of autism

Study: Sufficient copies of SMN1 gene extend survival in animals with spinal muscular atrophy

Immucor's PreciseType HEA test receives FDA approval to predict blood compatibility

Researchers discover how gene commonly linked to obesity contributes to weight gain

Researchers identify mutation in fat-storage gene that appears to increase risk for type 2 diabetes

Researchers resolve long-standing mystery of enzyme's role in cell survival

Danish researchers provide valuable insight into basic mechanisms of stem cell differentiation

TUSM scientists receive $11.5M grant to develop innovative treatments for heart failure

Sex cell determination requires maintenance throughout life

Group of 11 genes could help predict alcoholism risk

Soil bacteria have strategies for fighting antibiotics

Double mastectomies are unnecessary in women with breast cancer, says study

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