News tagged with hereditary neurological disorder
Neutrons provide first sub-nanoscale snapshots of Huntington's disease protein
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee have for the first time successfully characterized the earliest structural formation of the disease type ...
May 18, 2011 |
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Of yeast and men: Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of Friedreich's ataxia
Researchers in human genetics have long known that expansions of GAA repeats - resulting in this nucleotide triplet repeating hundreds or thousands of times - cause the most common hereditary neurological disorder known as ...
Jul 09, 2009 |
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U-M human embryonic stem cell line placed on national registry
The University of Michigan's first human embryonic stem cell line will be placed on the U.S. National Institutes of Health's registry, making the cells available for federally-funded research. It is the first of the stem ...
Feb 14, 2012 |
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Mutated gene found in dog disease the same in humans, researchers find
University of Missouri researchers believe both man and animal will benefit from their discovery that the same gene mutation found in Tibetan Terrier dogs can also be found in a fatal human neurological disorder ...
Apr 18, 2011 |
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'2 dogs 2,000 miles' trek promotes dog DNA for cancer research
A man and his two dogs on a 2,000-mile walk to raise awareness about cancer in dogs is helping a new $5.3 million canine cancer project recently launched by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and the Van ...
Jun 07, 2010 |
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Restless legs syndrome: French-Canadian families at higher risk
Restless legs syndrome, which causes an irresistible desire to move legs, appears to be a hereditary condition that's more prominent among French Canadian women and may be caused by a combination of genetic influences and ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 10, 2010 |
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Slobbery kisses from 'man's best friend' aid cancer research
Fido's wet licks might hold more than love. They could provide the DNA keys to findings new treatments for rare cancers and other diseases in both dogs and human patients.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 15, 2010 |
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Newly Discovered Gene Mutation Linked to Nerve Diseases
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have identified mutations in the gene for TRPV4 that cause two related degenerative motor nerve disorders, scapuloperoneal spinal muscular ...
Dec 28, 2009 |
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Genome sequence for the domestic horse unveiled
The whole genome sequence of the domestic horse has been completed by the genome-sequencing center of The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in collaboration with an international team of researchers that ...
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Gene therapy technique slows ALD brain disease
A strategy that combines gene therapy with blood stem cell therapy may be a useful tool for treating a fatal brain disease, French researchers have found. These findings appear in the 6 November 2009 issue ...
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Nov 05, 2009 |
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Researchers Studying How Genetic Disorder Develops -- In a Petri Dish (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- With new stem cell lines generated directly from the cells of patients, researchers are able to study how the genetic disorder known as Angelman syndrome develops.
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Brain Defect Implicated in Early Schizophrenia
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the first functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study of its kind, neurologists and psychiatrists at Columbia University have identified an area of the brain involved in the earliest ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 07, 2009 |
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