Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Scientists at Bonn and Düsseldorf Universities have discovered an important hair-loss gene. In 2005, these scientists had already characterized the first hair-loss gene inherited through the maternal line, which explained why hair-loss in men often reflects that of their maternal grandfathers. This newly discovered gene, on the other hand, may now account for the similarity in...
ScienceRoll (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Gene Genie is the blog carnival of clinical genetics and personalized medicine. Enjoy the numerous posts and articles focusing on these interesting fields of medicine. We dedicate this carnival edition to genetic testing, SNP watch and DNA. Many thanks to Ricardo Vidal for the logo! Genetic Testing: Grace Ibay at Genetics & Health analysed whether genetic testing [...]
Slashdot (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
FiReaNGeL writes "Researchers conducted a genome-wide association study of 1,125 Caucasian men who had been assessed for male pattern baldness. They found two previously unknown genetic variants on chromosome 20 that substantially increased the risk of male pattern baldness. They then confirmed these findings in an additional 1,650 Caucasian men. 'If you have both the risk variants we discovered on...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Letters are warped, syllables left out about four percent of the German population are dyslexics. Scientists seek to spot responsible genes and try to develop a genetic screening test to support affected children at an earlier age. Scool? Skuul? Or perhaps shcool? The beginning is a delicate time especially in reading and writing. Twisted letters or other beginner´s mistakes disappear quite...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Researchers from the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and its collaborators have now identified for the first time a new gene that may confer susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis. Their findings, published October 10 in the open access journal PLoS Genetics, reported that a gene named Toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8), previously shown only to recognize some factors from viruses such...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found two new genetic variations that appear to increase the risk of the most common skin cancer among people of European descent.
A Blog Around The Clock (Free subscription) | yesterday
In today's PLoS Computation Biology : Circadian rhythm is universally present from unicellular organisms to complex organisms and plays an important role in physiological processes such as the sleep-wake cycle in mammals. The mammalian circadian rhythm presents an excellent system for studying gene regulatory networks as a large number of genes are undergoing circadian oscillation in...
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Letters are warped, syllables left out -- about four percent of the German population are dyslexics. Scientists seek to spot responsible genes and try to develop a genetic screening test to support affected children at an earlier age.
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Researchers at McGill University, King's College London and GlaxoSmithKline Inc. have identified two genetic variants in caucasians that together produce an astounding sevenfold increase the risk of male pattern baldness. Their results will be published Oct. 12 in the journal Nature Genetics.
Physorg (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Researchers at McGill University, King's College London and GlaxoSmithKline Inc. have identified two genetic variants in caucasians that together produce an astounding sevenfold increase the risk of male pattern baldness. Their results will be published Oct. 12 in the journal Nature Genetics.
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gene Deitch will be the Guest of Honor at the 3rd annual San Francisco International Animation Festival (SFIAF), a four-day event from November 13th through 16th at Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema. Deitch will discuss his career in animation and show highlights of his work on Saturday morning Nov. 15th at 10:30am. Another highlight of the festival [...]
www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | yesterday
Washington, Oct 6 : By tweaking a single gene in plants, scientists would now be able to use a large portion of Earth s now-inhospitable soil to grow crops, alleviating one of the most pressing problems facing the planet s rapidly growing Source: www.topnews.in New Online Destination for Young Professionals [...]
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Portuguese, Swiss and French researchers show, for the first time, that is possible to inhibit, in a living organism, the mutated copies of a gene without affecting any existing normal copies of the same gene.
Richard Sprague (Free subscription) | yesterday
... with the very different conclusion from my Indian grandmother, who gave me 1/4th of my overall genes, but not the ones from this test. Remember, my mitochondrial DNA comes exclusively via my mother, just like my Y-chromosome DNA comes exclusively from my father. Since Grandma (a female) had no Y to pass down, my Y comes from my father and grandfather. Similarly, my mitochondrial DNA is 100%...
Nature (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Ark floats gene therapy's boat, for now Nature Biotechnology 26, 1057 (2008). doi:10.1038/nbt1008-1057 Author: Randy Osborne
