News tagged with gene activity
Related topics: cells , genes , proceedings of the national academy of sciences , nerve cells , gene expression
Microbes found in natural asphalt lake
(PhysOrg.com) -- A lake of natural hot liquid asphalt in Trinidad and Tobago has been found to be teeming with microbes despite the toxic environment. The lake, aptly named Pitch Lake (since pitch is the old ...
Apr 21, 2010 |
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Before animals first walked on land, fish carried gene program for limbs
Genetic instructions for developing limbs and digits were present in primitive fish millions of years before their descendants first crawled on to land, researchers have discovered.
Jul 11, 2011 |
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Researchers discover new layer of genetic information that helps determine how fast proteins are produced
A hidden and never before recognized layer of information in the genetic code has been uncovered by a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) thanks to a technique developed ...
Mar 28, 2012 |
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A Biological Basis for the 8-Hour Workday? Researchers uncover 8- and 12-hour Cycles of Gene Activity
(PhysOrg.com) -- The circadian clock coordinates physiological and behavioral processes on a 24-hour rhythm, allowing animals to anticipate changes in their environment and prepare accordingly. Scientists ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Researchers create first molecule blocks key component of cancer genes' on-off switch
In the quest to arrest the growth and spread of tumors, there have been many attempts to get cancer genes to ignore their internal instruction manual. In a new study, a team led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists ...
Sep 24, 2010 |
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Scientists take important step toward the proverbial fountain of youth
Going back for a second dessert after your holiday meal might not be the best strategy for living a long, cancer-free life say researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. That's because they've shown exactly ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Growth of new brain cells requires 'epigenetic' switch
New cells are born every day in the brain's hippocampus, but what controls this birth has remained a mystery. Reporting in the January 1 issue of Science, neuroscientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have d ...
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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MicroRNA expression and turnover are regulated by neural activity in the retina and brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) found that microRNAs, small RNA regulators of gene expression, are up- and down-regulated in the retina during ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 17, 2010 |
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Stress can control our genes
Stress has become one of the major disease states in the developed world. But what is stress? It depends on from where you look. You may experience stress as something that affects your entire body and mind, ...
Sep 24, 2010 |
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Honey bees study finds that insects have personality too
A new study in Science suggests that thrill-seeking is not limited to humans and other vertebrates. Some honey bees, too, are more likely than others to seek adventure. The brains of these novelty-seeking bees e ...
Mar 08, 2012 |
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Scientists take a step towards uncovering the histone code
Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have determined the structures of two enzymes that customize histones, the spool-like proteins around which DNA coils inside the cell.
Dec 20, 2009 |
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Allen Institute for Brain Science launches Allen Human Brain Atlas
The Allen Institute for Brain Science announced today that it has launched the Allen Human Brain Atlas, a publicly available online atlas charting genes at work throughout the human brain. The data provided in this initial ...
May 24, 2010 |
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Scientists discover first breast cancer 'oncogene' in five years
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have pinpointed a key cancer-causing gene that, when overactive, triggers a particularly aggressive type of breast cancer to develop.
Feb 18, 2011 |
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New Method Gives Regenerative Medicine a Boost
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bioengineers at UC San Diego have developed a breakthrough method for sequencing-based methylation profiling, which could help fuel personalized regenerative medicine and even lead to more ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Histone H1 regulates gene activity throughout the cell cycle
A protein that helps pack DNA into the cell nucleus has an important role in regulating gene activity, scientists report. The researchers found that the protein, histone H1, also takes part in the formation ...
Jul 01, 2010 |
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