News tagged with master genes

The food-energy cellular connection revealed

Our body's activity levels fall and rise to the beat of our internal drums—the 24-hour cycles that govern fundamental physiological functions, from sleeping and feeding patterns to the energy available to our cells. Whereas ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Feeding the clock: Cycles of feeding and fasting drive circadian gene expression in the liver

When you eat may be just as vital to your health as what you eat, found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Their experiments in mice revealed that the daily waxing and waning of thousands ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Master gene Math1 controls framework for perceiving external and internal body parts

Waking and walking to the bathroom in the pitch black of night requires brain activity that is both conscious and unconscious and requires a single master gene known as Math1 or Atoh1, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Master gene that switches on disease-fighting cells identified by scientists

(PhysOrg.com) -- The master gene that causes blood stem cells to turn into disease-fighting 'Natural Killer' (NK) immune cells has been identified by scientists, in a study published in Nature Immunology today. ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 13, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Scientists Identify Stem-Cell Genes That Help Form Plant Organs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plant stem-cells are master cells located at the tip of the stem and are part of a structure called the shoot apical meristem (SAM). Here, the stem cells—all clumped together—divide throughout ...

Biology /

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cells are like robust computational systems

Gene regulatory networks in cell nuclei are similar to cloud computing networks, such as Google or Yahoo!, researchers report today in the online journal Molecular Systems Biology. The similarity is that each system keeps ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists uncover evolutionary keys to common birth disorders

The work of Forsyth scientist Peter Jezewski, DDS, Ph.D., has revealed that duplication and diversification of protein regions ('modules') within ancient master control genes is key to the understanding of certain birth disorders. ...

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created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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