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Gene Therapy Alleviates Neurodegenerative Disease In Mice
Mice with neurodegenerative diseases have been successfully treated with gene therapy.
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Adapting Brain And Behaviour To Match The Environment
Zones in a specific brain area change size depending on whether rats experience a calm or stressful environment.
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Finding Allele-Specific Gene Expression
Scientists have developed a genome-wide technique to identify whether a person is expressing genetic information from their mother or father.
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Oncogenic microRNA
Scientists have discovered how a particular cluster of short strings of genetic material called microRNAs promotes lymphoma development.
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Damage Limitation
A key regulator of the DNA damage response is directly activated by the transcription factor FOXO3a - a protein known to regulate the cell cycle and cell death.
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'Lifeline' For Tumour Cells Can Be Cut
Researchers studying cancers in mice have identified a protein that is crucial for tumour survival, raising the prospect that new cancer therapies might halt tumours in their tracks by targeting this molecule.
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Fresh Detective Approach Finds New Obesity Genes
By turning the conventional method of hunting for disease genes on its head, a team of geneticists has discovered three new genes linked to obesity.
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Missing Cells To Blame In Job's Syndrome
New research by immunologists on the rare immune disease called Job's syndrome shows that sufferers lack a specific type of white blood cell, leaving them open to repeated attack by certain bacterial and fungal pathogens.
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Subverting A Metabolic Pathway For Tumour Growth
Two research papers shed further light on the mechanisms underlying the switch in the way glucose is metabolized by tumour cells.
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'Crime Boss' Gene Controls Aggressive Breast Tumours
Geneticists have identified a gene that promotes aggressive breast cancer by altering the behaviour of more than 1,000 other genes within tumour cells.
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