News results: "genetic mutations"

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Specials

No Significant Difference between Genetic Testing, Traditional Methods in Predicting Type 2 Diabetes

No Significant Difference between Genetic Testing, Traditional Methods in Predicting Type 2 Diabetes

The results of genetic testing for Type 2 diabetes are not significantly better than an assessment...
» read full story November 20th, 2008 - 15:14
Bone Marrow Transplant Might Cure AIDS? Or Not?

Bone Marrow Transplant Might Cure AIDS? Or Not?

A German doctor says one of his patients, who suffered from leukaemia and was infected with the...
» read full story November 14th, 2008 - 08:51
Big Step Forward for Cancer Research: Scientists Map Cancer Patient’s Genome

Big Step Forward for Cancer Research: Scientists Map Cancer Patient’s Genome

Scientists for the first time have been able to look at the entire set of genes from a cancer...
» read full story November 07th, 2008 - 15:20
Scientists Finally Decode Cancer Genome

Scientists Finally Decode Cancer Genome

Using DNA mapping, researchers have finally traced cancer to its genetic roots, according to a...
» read full story November 06th, 2008 - 21:12
US Researchers ID 26 Genes Responsible For Lung Cancer

US Researchers ID 26 Genes Responsible For Lung Cancer

US researchers have identified 26 genes that are frequently mutated in people who develop...
» read full story October 23rd, 2008 - 13:08

Virus hunters track HIV to 100 years back

Washington - A decades-old paraffin wax-encased block of tissue has added a curious chapter to the...
» read full story October 03rd, 2008 - 08:14
Wear Pink for the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Wear Pink for the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month is dedicated to increasing awareness of the importance of...
» read full story October 02nd, 2008 - 16:01

Major Breakthrough In Cancer Research, A Promising Way To Study Cancer

Scientists with the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center at the Johns Hopkins University have managed...
» read full story September 07th, 2008 - 14:30
Gene Research Heightens Hope For Curing Autism

Gene Research Heightens Hope For Curing Autism

U.S. researchers have found six new genes involved in autism. More exactly, they found that these...
» read full story July 13th, 2008 - 15:17
House Approves Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act

House Approves Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act

The House of Representatives in a near-unanimous vote (414-1) approved the Genetic...
» read full story May 02nd, 2008 - 13:08
Columbus Responsible For Bringing Syphilis To Europe

Columbus Responsible For Bringing Syphilis To Europe

Was it a simple coincidence that when Columbus returned from the New World, the first epidemic of...
» read full story January 15th, 2008 - 13:23
Human Evolution: Homo Sapiens Sapiens Sapiens…?

Human Evolution: Homo Sapiens Sapiens Sapiens…?

How much wisdom (sapientia) would humans be able to accumulate? Homo sapiens sapiens is on the...
» read full story December 11th, 2007 - 16:12
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Technology

Big Step Forward For Cancer Research: Scientists Map Cancer Patient’s Genome

Big Step Forward For Cancer Research: Scientists Map Cancer Patient’s Genome

Scientists for the first time have been able to look at the entire set of genes from a cancer...
» read full story November 08th, 2008 - 09:29
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World

Wear Pink For The National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Wear Pink For The National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month is dedicated to increasing awareness of the importance of...
» read full story October 03rd, 2008 - 16:37
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Science

Royal Mail Issues Stamps Celebrating Charles Darwin

Royal Mail Issues Stamps Celebrating Charles Darwin

On Thursday, the Royal Mail announced that it would issue ten stamps that commemorate the 200th...
» read full story February 12th, 2009 - 12:29
Obese Older  Women Have An Increased Risk Of Breast Cancer

Obese Older Women Have An Increased Risk Of Breast Cancer

A series of studies have shown that being obese or even overweight may boost a person’s risk of...
» read full story November 28th, 2008 - 21:03
Mammoth DNA Almost Completely Reconstructed

Mammoth DNA Almost Completely Reconstructed

A team of scientists is extremely close to a new scientific breakthrough, as its members managed to...
» read full story November 23rd, 2008 - 15:18
Cancer Research Moves Forward: Scientists Decode Complete Cancer Genome

Cancer Research Moves Forward: Scientists Decode Complete Cancer Genome

Using DNA sequencing, scientists at Washington University in St. Louis were able to identify the...
» read full story November 08th, 2008 - 14:00
5,000-Year-Old Iceman Otzi – The Representative of an Extinct Lineage

5,000-Year-Old Iceman Otzi – The Representative of an Extinct Lineage

The oldest complete DNA sequence of a human mitochondria performed on the famous Tyrolean Iceman or...
» read full story November 02nd, 2008 - 13:58
Cancer Treatment Connected To Gene Make-Up

Cancer Treatment Connected To Gene Make-Up

Recently, scientists have discovered another gene mutation, which makes bowel cancer patients...
» read full story October 23rd, 2008 - 20:10
US Researchers Identify Autism Genes Heightening Hope for Cure

US Researchers Identify Autism Genes Heightening Hope for Cure

A genetic research on more than 100 families prone to autism by Harvard researchers shed new light...
» read full story July 11th, 2008 - 11:58
DNA Links Humanity To One Common Origin: Africa

DNA Links Humanity To One Common Origin: Africa

Have you ever been to Africa? According to the latest studies on human diversity, you have!...
» read full story February 22nd, 2008 - 14:50
Anthropologist Say Humans Evolve More Rapidly

Anthropologist Say Humans Evolve More Rapidly

A new study led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropologist John Hawks revelead that we...
» read full story December 11th, 2007 - 01:12
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Health

Autistic Kids Display Common Genetic Variations

Autistic Kids Display Common Genetic Variations

Researchers have long blamed genetics for autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) but no study...
» read full story April 29th, 2009 - 13:33
Premature Babies More Prone to Autism

Premature Babies More Prone to Autism

  According to a new study published Wednesday in the Journal of Pediatrics, children who are...
» read full story January 30th, 2009 - 14:20
Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder May Have Common Genetic Causes

Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder May Have Common Genetic Causes

A new study on the link between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia has found evidence that the...
» read full story January 16th, 2009 - 12:20
Obese Older  Women Have an Increased Risk of Breast Cancer

Obese Older Women Have an Increased Risk of Breast Cancer

A series of studies have shown that being obese or even overweight may boost a person’s risk of...
» read full story November 27th, 2008 - 14:50
Breast Cancer Risk Up in Women with a Family History of the Disease

Breast Cancer Risk Up in Women with a Family History of the Disease

Women with a family history of breast cancer have a very high risk of developing the disease even...
» read full story November 18th, 2008 - 15:00
Breakthrough In Medicine: Bone Marrow Transplant Might Cure HIV?

Breakthrough In Medicine: Bone Marrow Transplant Might Cure HIV?

A German doctor says one of his patients, who suffered from leukaemia and was infected with the...
» read full story November 13th, 2008 - 14:20
A Big Step Forward For Cancer Research: Scientists Map Cancer Patient’s Genome

A Big Step Forward For Cancer Research: Scientists Map Cancer Patient’s Genome

Scientists for the first time have been able to look at the entire set of genes from a cancer...
» read full story November 09th, 2008 - 21:13
Researchers Map Cancer Genes

Researchers Map Cancer Genes

Washington University researchers have decoded the complete DNA of a patient suffering from...
» read full story November 07th, 2008 - 16:15
Genetic Map Of Cancer Unveiled

Genetic Map Of Cancer Unveiled

By using cells donated by a woman in her 50s who died of leukemia, the scientists at the Washington...
» read full story November 06th, 2008 - 23:39
Autism Gene May Play Role in Childhood Language Disorder As Well

Autism Gene May Play Role in Childhood Language Disorder As Well

University of Oxford researchers discovered that a gene implicated in autism may also play a...
» read full story November 06th, 2008 - 13:51
Scientists Decode Entire Genome Of A Cancer Patient For The First Time

Scientists Decode Entire Genome Of A Cancer Patient For The First Time

For the first time, scientists have managed to decode the complete DNA sequence of a cancer...
» read full story November 06th, 2008 - 13:30
Update: New Genes Related To Lung Cancer Discovered

Update: New Genes Related To Lung Cancer Discovered

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, United States have identified...
» read full story October 22nd, 2008 - 23:30

Breast Cancer Post-Op Radiations Raise Risks Of Developing Contralateral Tumors

Breast cancer research for cure, cause and prevention is an on-going struggle for scientists, for...
» read full story October 15th, 2008 - 19:28
Update: Physical Activity Can Reverse Effects Of Obesity Gene

Update: Physical Activity Can Reverse Effects Of Obesity Gene

As obesity increasingly becomes a global health concern, researchers all over the world try to...
» read full story September 09th, 2008 - 14:15
“Stand Up to Cancer” Telethon Raises more than $100 Million

“Stand Up to Cancer” Telethon Raises more than $100 Million

The campaign to raise money for cancer research which included the telethon that aired on ABC, CBS...
» read full story September 08th, 2008 - 14:00

Scientists Map Cancer Genome

A team of U.S. researchers claimed it found new genetic mutations involved in glioblastoma, the...
» read full story September 06th, 2008 - 16:09

Bird’s Eye View of Overall Genetic Changes In Cancer

Two revolutionary studies on cancer were published this week in the journal Science. It appears...
» read full story September 05th, 2008 - 20:30
Older fathers Are More Likely To Have Children With Bipolar Disorder

Older fathers Are More Likely To Have Children With Bipolar Disorder

Older fathers are more likely to have children with bipolar disorder, a mental illness also known...
» read full story September 02nd, 2008 - 14:00
Christina Applegate Set a Good Example

Christina Applegate Set a Good Example

Women who are proven to have a high risk of developing breast cancer usually choose the double...
» read full story August 21st, 2008 - 07:26
Newly Revealed Genetic Secrets Will Help Fight against Schizophrenia

Newly Revealed Genetic Secrets Will Help Fight against Schizophrenia

Researchers at the University of Washington say they've found specific gene variations linked to...
» read full story July 31st, 2008 - 16:06
Middle Eastern Families Shed Light On Autism's Genetics

Middle Eastern Families Shed Light On Autism's Genetics

Harvard researchers looked at the genetic makeup of large Middle Eastern families in search for...
» read full story July 10th, 2008 - 22:28
After One Week, Autistic Man Rescued Alive from Woods

After One Week, Autistic Man Rescued Alive from Woods

Keith Kennedy, 25, was found alive after being lost for a week in the woods of Wisconsin. He had...
» read full story June 23rd, 2008 - 22:52
Gene Therapy Found to Slow Progression of Fatal Brain Condition

Gene Therapy Found to Slow Progression of Fatal Brain Condition

An experimental gene therapy had positive effects in slowing the progression of Batten disease, or...
» read full story May 14th, 2008 - 14:39
Autistic Kids Have High Chances of Having Mentally Ill Parents

Autistic Kids Have High Chances of Having Mentally Ill Parents

A comprehensive study of Swedish medical records has turned out an interesting conclusion which may...
» read full story May 05th, 2008 - 23:34
International Cancer Genome Consortium Founded

International Cancer Genome Consortium Founded

Nine countries and the European Commission have founded the International Cancer Genome Consortium,...
» read full story April 29th, 2008 - 18:07
Study Shows Schizophrenia Could Be Genetic

Study Shows Schizophrenia Could Be Genetic

A new study based on the latest gene-scanning technology has brought new and much-desired light on...
» read full story March 29th, 2008 - 19:41
Schizophrenia Linked with Array of Genetic Mutations

Schizophrenia Linked with Array of Genetic Mutations

Just days after the death of a pioneer of schizophrenia treatment, Baltimore psychiatrist Dr. Frank...
» read full story March 27th, 2008 - 23:21
BRCA Genetic Mutations May Not Lead to Breast Cancer

BRCA Genetic Mutations May Not Lead to Breast Cancer

Not all women who are carriers of the BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 genetic mutations show the same risk for...
» read full story January 09th, 2008 - 13:29
Breast Cancer Genetically Traced Back to…Fathers

Breast Cancer Genetically Traced Back to…Fathers

Surprisingly or not, genetic studies have shown that breast cancer doesn’t strike out of the blue...
» read full story June 20th, 2007 - 15:53
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