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 | 1. Preventive Surgeries Linked to Lower Risk of Cancer for Women with BRCA1/2 Gene Mutations
Listed On: Friday, September 03, 2010
Women who have inherited mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 (BRCA1/2) genes have substantially elevated risks of developing breast and ovarian cancer....
School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System
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 | 2. New Parkinson's Gene is Linked to Immune System
Listed On: Wednesday, September 01, 2010
A hunt throughout the human genome for variants associated with common late-onset Parkinson's disease has revealed a new genetic link that implicates the immune system and offers new targets for drug development....
Johns Hopkins Medicine
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 | 3. New Device Packs Power to Analyze Genes, Proteins at Patients' Bedside
Listed On: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida researchers have helped to develop a device that quickly identifies genes and proteins in body fluids — a technique that could make a vital difference to the trauma patients doctors treat....
University of Florida
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 | 4. Study Points to Key Genetic Driver of Severe Asthma
Listed On: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
CINCINNATI – Scientists have identified a genetic basis for determining the severity of allergic asthma in experimental models of the disease....
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
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 | 5. Social Evolution Regulates 'Fire of Life'
Listed On: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Metabolic rate is a measure of the "fire of life" burning within an organism – the spark that enables it to breathe, run, reproduce and live fully....
Arizona State University
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 | 6. Study of Cell Division Sheds Light on Special Mechanism in Egg Cells
Listed On: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
In a study of egg cells using time-lapse microscopy, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have discovered an unusual property of meiosis – cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms....
University of California, San Diego
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 | 7. Fertilizer Chemicals Linked to Animal Developmental Woes
Listed On: Saturday, August 28, 2010
Fertilizer chemicals may pose a bigger hazard to the environment – specifically to creatures that live in water – than originally foreseen, according to new research from North Carolina State University toxicologists....
North Carolina State University
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 | 8. Sex More Likely for Female Flies with Promise of Food
Listed On: Saturday, August 28, 2010
Female fruit flies will have sex more frequently if they think there is more food around, and a new study led by Oxford University has explained how this happens....
University of Oxford
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 | 9. Researchers Advance Understanding of Enzyme That Regulates DNA
Listed On: Saturday, August 28, 2010
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Thanks to a single-molecule imaging technique developed by a University of Illinois professor, researchers have revealed the mechanisms of an important DNA-regulating enzyme. Helicase enzymes are best known for "unzipping" DNA for replication, but have many other functions for DNA repair and maintenance....
University of Illinois
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 | 10. Study Uncovers Genetic Origins of Rare Kidney Disease
Listed On: Friday, August 27, 2010
A rare form of kidney disease linked to a genetic mutation in the innate immune system has been identified by researchers at Imperial College London and University College London (UCL)....
Imperial College London
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