Tag: Genetics

Tiny Australian wallaby the last living link to extinct giant kangaroosCredit: Joseph Burgess A Queensland University of Technology (QUT) led ...

Genetic study of epilepsy points to potential new therapies

RCSI researchers play key role in international collaborationCredit: RCSI Monday, 10 December 2018: The largest study of its kind, led ...

Undiplomatic immunity: Mutation causing arterial autoimmune disease revealed

Credit: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine,TMDU Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) researchers reveal how a single mutation in a regulatory ...

How does cancer spread?

Researchers pinpoint a gene that affects cell-to-cell communication leading to the diseaseCredit: McGill University Health Centre Montreal, December 10 2018 ...

Potential seen for tailoring treatment for acute myeloid leukemia

December 7, 2018

Rapid drug response screening for leukemia stem cells offers clues to relapse and to improving patient-specific therapiesCredit: Alice C, Gray ...

UC San Diego researcher gets $4 million NCI award to study cancer drug resistance, spread

December 7, 2018

Credit: UC San Diego Health The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded David Cheresh, PhD, Distinguished Professor and vice chair ...

Parrot genome analysis reveals insights into longevity, cognition

Genome of blue-fronted Amazon parrot compared with 30 other long-lived birdsCredit: Glaucia Seixas PITTSBURGH--Parrots are famously talkative, and a blue-fronted ...

Parrot genome analysis reveals mutations favoring longevity and cognition

Credit: Glaucia Seixas, https://bluefrontedamazonproject.wordpress.com A genome analysis of traits in parrots and 26 other bird species revealed that parrots and ...

An ancient strain of plague may have led to the decline of Neolithic Europeans

Credit: Karl-Göran Sjögren / University of Gothenburg A team of researchers from France, Sweden, and Denmark have identified a new ...

Profiling a killer in warm blood

Israeli scientists and physicians develop a new technology for profiling the unique genetic makeup of myeloma tumor cells that will ...

Another Medical cold case cracked by the MUHC's 'Dr. House'

Team of RI-MUHC researchers discover new disease and its genetic cause in Quebec patient as 'Bubble Boy' symptoms discovered in ...

Elevated hormone flags liver problems in mice with methylmalonic acidemia

Study findings can immediately be applied to human patients with the diseaseCredit: Patricia M. Zerfas, NIH Office of Research Services. ...

Otago researchers discover information about a gene that helps define us as humans

Credit: Dr Adam O'Neill University of Otago researchers have discovered information about a gene that sets primates - great apes ...

Classifying brain microglia: Which are good and which are bad?