News tagged with de lange syndrome

In a rare disorder, a familiar protein disrupts gene function

As reported this week in the open-access journal PLoS Biology, an international team of scientists studying a rare genetic disease has discovered that a bundle of proteins already known to be important for keeping chromo ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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Surprise in genome structure linked to developmental diseases

A team of researchers from Whitehead Institute, MIT, University of Colorado, and University of Massachusetts have discovered that each cell type in our bodies has a unique genome structure, which is due to a newly discovered ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Chromosome 'glue' surprises scientists

Proteins called cohesins ensure that newly copied chromosomes bind together, separate correctly during cell division, and are repaired efficiently after DNA damage. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have found for the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A common thread links multiple human cognitive disorders

A new study reveals that a common underlying mechanism is shared by a group of previously unrelated disorders which all cause complex defects in brain development and function. Rett syndrome (RTT), Cornelia de Lange syndrome ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Eroded telomeres are behind a rare premature aging syndrome

(PhysOrg.com) -- Each time a cell divides, the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes shorten — and when these caps are gone, so are we. Now, by using an unconventional strategy to shorten telomeres in ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 01, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Molecular glue with new effect

Ten years ago, researchers at the IMP - a basic research institute in Vienna - discovered a fundamental and amazingly plausible mechanism of cell division. They identified a protein complex, which, as a ring-shaped molecule, ...

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created Jan 31, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0


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