News articles tagged with 'RNA'
Genomic signature in post-menopausal women may explain why pregnancy reduces breast cancer risk
— 6 Apr 2011 17:04 | HealthWomen who have children, particularly early in life, have a lower lifetime risk of breast cancer compared with women who do not. Now, Fox Chase Cancer Centre researchers have identified…
'SKIP'-ing splicing forces tumour cells to undergo programmed cell death
— 2 Apr 2011 11:49 | HealthWhen cells find themselves in a tight spot, the cell cycle regulator p21 halts the cell cycle, buying cells time to repair the damage, or if all else fails, to initiate programmed cell…
Micro-RNA's contribute to risk for panic disorder
— 28 Mar 2011 17:47 | HealthStudies in twin pairs suggest that 40% of the risk for panic disorder is heritable, yet the manner in which genes contribute to the risk for panic disorder is far from clear. To date,…
UCSB scientists get glimpse of how the 'code' of life may have emerged
— 28 Mar 2011 15:12 | BiologyA portion of the 'code' of life has been unravelled by a UC Santa Barbara graduate student from the town of Jojutla, Mexico…
Stanford researchers discover molecular determinant of cell identity
— 21 Mar 2011 16:12 | HealthIf a big bunch of your brain cells suddenly went rogue and decided to become fat cells, it could cloud your decision-making capacity a bit. Fortunately, early in an organism's development,…
Study identifies therapeutic target for liver cancer and predictive biomarker of response
— 14 Mar 2011 20:24 | HealthIn a research study appearing in the journal Cancer Cell on March 14, scientists from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and four other institutions have identified a strategy for…
Loss of key protein boosts neurone loss in ALS
— 5 Mar 2011 14:00 | HealthAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as ALS or more popularly, Lou Gehrig's disease, is a notorious neurodegenerative condition characterised by the progressive deterioration of brain…
Novel mechanism for control of gene expression revealed
— 5 Mar 2011 13:03 | HealthDr David Levin, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine and Professor of Microbiology at Boston University School of…
Solving a traditional Chinese medicine mystery
— 4 Mar 2011 16:18 | HealthResearchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have discovered that a natural product isolated from a traditional Chinese medicinal plant commonly known as thunder god vine, or…
Scientists show how men amp up their X chromosome
— 3 Mar 2011 12:32 | HealthWhat makes a man? His clothes? His car? His choice of scotch? The real answer, says Brown University biologist Erica Larschan, is the newly understood activity of a protein complex…