News tagged with glucocorticoid receptor

Side effects explained: Why common drugs can lead to broken bones

New research helps to explain why some commonly used drugs come with a serious downside: They up your odds of breaking a bone. The drugs in question, glucocorticoids (e.g. cortisone and prednisone) and the insulin sensitizer ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ratchet-like genetic mutations make evolution irreversible

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Oregon research team has found that evolution can never go backwards, because the paths to the genes once present in our ancestors are forever blocked. The findings -- the ...

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 8

Hormones found to affect gene activity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Intermittent signaling by steroid hormones can affect the way genes are expressed in rodents, according to research by scientists at the University of Bristol and the National Cancer Institute ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0