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  • Organ Transplant Pioneers Celebrate Baylor Regional Transplant Institute's 25th Anniversary 24 Nov 2009 09:01 GMT
    ... Organ Transplant Pioneers Celebrate Baylor Regional Transplant Institute's 25th ... cells to repair and create organs, "personalized" gene-based diagnosis and therapy of organs, and immune system treatment to ...

  • The Dark Side of Darwin's Legacy 24 Nov 2009 08:55 GMT
    ... This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth ... convinced. In a new book, The Political Gene: How Darwin's Ideas Changed Politics , he highlights ... is scientists arguing for the use of genetics to breed out certain behavioral traits from ...

  • Sobering up: Experts dispute 1-size-fits-all tactic 24 Nov 2009 08:53 GMT
    ... There are clues that can presage alcohol problems ... by age 25. Some people carry a gene mutation ALDH2 that affects alcohol ... can be treated with medications or behavioral therapy with a primary care doctor," he said. ...

  • Health Heritage: New website for maintaining family's health history 24 Nov 2009 07:11 GMT
    ... How well do you know your health heritage — ... technologies, have deciphered the secret code of genetics. We now have unprecedented information about the ... a family's particular medical history. Carrying a gene that predisposes you to have a is only ...

  • Cancer risk and screening 24 Nov 2009 06:42 GMT
    ... The You Docs, Dr. Michael Roizen, Dr. Mehmet Oz ... high risk due to family history or genetics were urged to start earlier and sometimes ... member who's tested positive for a breast-cancer gene); or lifestyle factors that could raise your risk, ...

  • Microneedle Drug Delivery Systems Revenue to Double by 2012 24 Nov 2009 05:31 GMT
    ... Greystone Associates Analyzes Technology Factors, Market Drivers and ... and the administration of nucleic acids for gene therapy.” A new research study, Microneedles in Medicine: ...

  • BioMed Central: Gene knockout may cheer up mice 24 Nov 2009 05:30 GMT
    ... from mice has an anti-depressant-like and anxiolytic-like effect. Researchers ... the PKCI/HINT1 animals, concluding that the deleted gene may have an important role in mood ... Bipolar Disorder, Manic-Depressive Illness, Neuroscience, Pharmaceuticals, Psychiatry, Therapy, Treatment. This article was prepared by NewsRx ...

  • University of California - Davis: Genome sequence for the domestic horse to be unveiled 24 Nov 2009 05:30 GMT
    ... sequence of the domestic horse has been completed ... geneticist Cecilia Penedo of UC Davis' Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, a co-author on the paper. As ... shown that a horse can carry the gene for equine cerebellar abiotrophy and not be affected ...

  • Recovery Funds Advance Alzheimer's Disease Research 24 Nov 2009 04:36 GMT
    ... American Recovery and Reinvestment Funds are being used ... of Health and Human Services. The AD Genetics Consortium and more " Identifying genes affecting ... translocase of outer mitochondrial membrane (TOMM40), a gene that makes a protein thought to play a ...

  • Predisposition To Alcoholism - What's In Your Genes? 24 Nov 2009 04:36 GMT
    ... Predisposition To Alcoholism - What's In Your Genes? ... will plague you because you inherited the gene from a parent. On the other hand, there ... be completely understood. We understand that while genetics contributes to the disease of alcoholism, there ...

  • Racial disparities in diabetes prevalence linked to living conditions 24 Nov 2009 04:34 GMT
    ... Researchers in this study found that within their ... more to do with living conditions than genetics, according to a study led by researchers ... genetics we need to first identify a gene, polymorphism or gene mutation that exists in one ...

  • Your Life Could Depend on Knowing Your Health Heritage 24 Nov 2009 02:32 GMT
    ... Your Life Could Depend on Knowing Your Health Heritage ... technologies, have deciphered the secret code of genetics. We now have unprecedented information about the ... a family's particular medical history. Carrying a gene that predisposes you to have a heart attack ...

  • Birds fed GM feed do not produce GM meat, scientist says 23 Nov 2009 23:53 GMT
    ... Birds fed GM feed do not produce GM meat, ... The commission asked Canterbury University professor of genetics and molecular biology Jack Heinemann to research ... DNA (nucleotides) rather than a piece of gene sequence. "These constituents carry no genetic information, in ...

  • Diabetes surgery summit consensus lays foundation for new field of medicine 23 Nov 2009 23:42 GMT
    ... Diabetes surgery summit consensus lays foundation for new ... are inadequately controlled by lifestyle and medical therapy." The statement goes on to state that ... the U.S.; the first clinical trial for gene therapy for Parkinson's disease; the first indication ...

  • Designer babies new ethical frontier 23 Nov 2009 22:55 GMT
    ... Genetic screening of human embryos may eventually eradicate ... that we could identify, say, the goal-kicking gene and that may be something that parents would ... profession have huge concerns about that.'' Human Genetics Advisory Committee chairman Professor Ron Trent also ...


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