News tagged with muscle genes
Tracking genes' remote controls
As an embryo develops, different genes are turned on in different cells, to form muscles, neurons and other bodily parts. Inside each cell's nucleus, genetic sequences known as enhancers act like remote controls, ...
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Scientists show how cells accurately inherit information that is not contained in their genes
All 10 trillion cells in the adult human body are genetically identical, but develop into distinct cell types, such as muscle cells, skin cells or neurons, by activating some genes while inhibiting others. ...
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Muscling toward a longer life: Genetic aging pathway identified in flies
Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have identified a set of genes that act in muscles to modulate aging and resistance to stress in fruit flies.
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Apple peel makes mice mighty
For Popeye, spinach was the key to extra muscle. For the mice in a new University of Iowa study, it was apples, or more precisely a waxy substance called ursolic acid that's found in apple peel.
Jun 07, 2011 |
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Fruit flies on meth: Study explores whole-body effects of toxic drug
A new study in fruit flies offers a broad view of the potent and sometimes devastating molecular events that occur throughout the body as a result of methamphetamine exposure.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 20, 2011 |
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Scientists identify gene that could hold the key to muscle repair
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have long questioned why patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) tend to manage well through childhood and adolescence, yet succumb to their disease in early adulthood, or why elderly ...
Apr 18, 2011 |
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New gene test offers personalized treatment for inherited neuromuscular disorder
The gene, GFPT1, has been identified by researchers at Newcastle University working with international colleagues, as crucial in causing a variation of Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome (CMS).
Feb 11, 2011 |
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Researchers identify gene tied to extremely rare disorder that causes inflammation and loss of fat
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a gene responsible for a rare disease that results in severe joint stiffness, muscle loss, anemia and panniculitis-induced lipodystrophy, or JMP syndrome.
Dec 01, 2010 |
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The couch potato effect: Deletion of key muscle protein inhibits exercise
Daniel Kelly, M.D., and his colleagues at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) at Lake Nona have unveiled a surprising new model for studying muscle function: the couch potato mouse. While these mice ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 30, 2010 |
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Newly discovered regulatory mechanism essential for embryo development and may contribute to cancer
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified a mechanism controlling the function of a protein that binds to DNA during embryonic development and may function to prevent abnormal tumor growth. When the ...
Oct 28, 2010 |
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Risk gene for severe heart disease discovered
Research led by Klaus Stark and Christian Hengstenberg of the University of Regensburg identified a common variant of the cardiovascular heat shock protein gene, HSPB7, which was found to increase risk for dilated cardiomyopathy ...
Oct 21, 2010 |
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Single gene regulates motor neurons in spinal cord
In a surprising and unexpected discovery, scientists at NYU Langone Medical Center have found that a single type of gene acts as a master organizer of motor neurons in the spinal cord. The finding, published ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Scientists discover new method for regenerating heart muscle by direct reprogramming
Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) have found a new way to make beating heart cells from the body's own cells that could help regenerate damaged hearts. Over 5 million Americans suffer ...
Aug 05, 2010 |
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Researchers discover new way diseases develop
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified a previously unknown mechanism by which cells direct gene expression, the process by which information from a gene is used to direct the physical and behavioral ...
Jul 08, 2010 |
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Study shows key enzyme in fetal heart development also involved in adult heart disease
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified for the first time an enzyme that plays vital roles in both fetal heart development and in causing cardiac hypertrophy — an enlargement of the heart ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 30, 2010 |
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