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Insurance Companies Should Have Access To Genetic Information

Categorie : Genetics
There is no good reason to deny insurers access to genetic information, argues a Professor of Ethics in a debate published in this week's BMJ. Only if we refuse to give insurers access to all health information can we reasonably stop them seeking genetic test results, says Professor Soren Holm from ...

read more There is no good reason to deny insurers access to genetic information, argues a Professor of Ethics in a debate published in this week's BMJ. Only if we refuse to give insurers access to all health information can we reasonably stop them seeking genetic test results, says Professor Soren Holm from read more Fri Jun 2007 Fri Jun 2007

Genomic Signatures Identify Targeted Therapies For Lung Cancer

Categorie : Genetics
Any number of things can go wrong in the cells of the body to cause cancer -- and clinicians can't tell by just looking at a tumor what exactly triggered the once normal cells to turn cancerous.New tests developed by researchers at Duke University can determine the precise patterns among thousands o ...

read more Any number of things can go wrong in the cells of the body to cause cancer -- and clinicians can't tell by just looking at a tumor what exactly triggered the once normal cells to turn cancerous.New tests developed by researchers at Duke University can determine the precise patterns among thousands o read more Thu Jun 2007 Thu Jun 2007

Gene Variations Point To Why Lung Cancer Drugs Work Better In Japanese Vs. US Patients

Categorie : Genetics
Last year, a groundbreaking international project found that a group of Japanese patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer survived longer - and had a higher rate of side effects - than U.S. patients with the same diagnosis, when both groups were given two well-known drugs for the disease.No ...

read more Last year, a groundbreaking international project found that a group of Japanese patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer survived longer - and had a higher rate of side effects - than U.S. patients with the same diagnosis, when both groups were given two well-known drugs for the disease.No read more Thu Jun 2007 Thu Jun 2007

Researchers Discover Inherited Mutation For Leukemia

Categorie : Genetics
Researchers have discovered the first inherited gene mutation that increases a person's risk for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), one of the most common forms of the disease.The study shows that the inherited mutation greatly reduces the gene's protective activity. Furthermore, a second kind of c ...

read more Researchers have discovered the first inherited gene mutation that increases a person's risk for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), one of the most common forms of the disease.The study shows that the inherited mutation greatly reduces the gene's protective activity. Furthermore, a second kind of c read more Thu Jun 2007 Thu Jun 2007

Nobel Laureate James Watson Receives Personal Genome In Ceremony At Baylor College Of Medicine

Categorie : Genetics
The $1 million, two-month project is a collaboration of 454 Life Sciences and the BCM Human Genome Sequencing Center (HGSC), said Dr. Richard Gibbs, director of the HGSC and a scientific advisor to the Connecticut-based company. The announcement, aside from its meaning to Watson, is significant beca ...

read more The $1 million, two-month project is a collaboration of 454 Life Sciences and the BCM Human Genome Sequencing Center (HGSC), said Dr. Richard Gibbs, director of the HGSC and a scientific advisor to the Connecticut-based company. The announcement, aside from its meaning to Watson, is significant beca read more Thu Jun 2007 Thu Jun 2007

Dietary Supplementation With Enzyme Reverses Some Kidney Disease

Categorie : Genetics
In the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Marjan Huizing and colleagues from the National Human Genome Research Institute report the first kidney disease caused by a genetic defect in the production of sialic acid. Remarkably, they show that, in mice, disease symptoms can be reversed by addition of ...

read more In the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Marjan Huizing and colleagues from the National Human Genome Research Institute report the first kidney disease caused by a genetic defect in the production of sialic acid. Remarkably, they show that, in mice, disease symptoms can be reversed by addition of read more Wed Jun 2007 Wed Jun 2007

Once-Fatal Metabolic Disorders Treatable, Says Stanford/Packard Researcher

Categorie : Genetics
People with a class of rare genetic disorders that often lead to brain damage, coma and death can be successfully treated with drugs, says a researcher at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.The researchers found in their unprecedented 25-year study that ...

read more People with a class of rare genetic disorders that often lead to brain damage, coma and death can be successfully treated with drugs, says a researcher at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.The researchers found in their unprecedented 25-year study that read more Wed Jun 2007 Wed Jun 2007

Crammed With Charged DNA, Pressure Rises Inside Virus

Categorie : Genetics
It could be an artist's depiction of someone's stomach before and after a rather decadent meal. But it is a 3-D cryoelectron microscope reconstruction of the cross-section of a virus, before and after cramming itself full of its own DNA. The virus, phi29, has a tiny motor that pumps its DNA into t ...

read more It could be an artist's depiction of someone's stomach before and after a rather decadent meal. But it is a 3-D cryoelectron microscope reconstruction of the cross-section of a virus, before and after cramming itself full of its own DNA. The virus, phi29, has a tiny motor that pumps its DNA into t read more Wed Jun 2007 Wed Jun 2007

Enzyme Delivered In Smaller Package Protects Cells From Radiation Damage

Categorie : Genetics
A University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine research team, collaborating with scientists from Stanford University, have developed a new, smaller gene therapy vector that may be effective in delivering a radioprotective enzyme systemically throughout the body which may spare healthy tissue the long ...

read more A University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine research team, collaborating with scientists from Stanford University, have developed a new, smaller gene therapy vector that may be effective in delivering a radioprotective enzyme systemically throughout the body which may spare healthy tissue the long read more Wed Jun 2007 Wed Jun 2007

Manchester Researcher Wins Libyan Award

Categorie : Genetics
Abdul Gbaj, who is researching the pharmaceutical aspects of genetic and tumour sciences at the University's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, received his award from the Libyan Minister of Higher Education, Dr Akeel Hussain Akeel."When he told me I had won this award, I was very proud ...

read more Abdul Gbaj, who is researching the pharmaceutical aspects of genetic and tumour sciences at the University's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, received his award from the Libyan Minister of Higher Education, Dr Akeel Hussain Akeel. read more Wed Jun 2007 Wed Jun 2007

Professor Oliver Smithies Honoured In Berlin For Developing Technology Which Allows For Shutting Down Genes In Animals

Categorie : Genetics
Dr. Oliver Smithies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, has received the Commemorative Medal of the E.K Frey - E.Werle Foundation in Berlin, Germany. Together with two other researchers, he developed the "knock-out" technology which allows for shutting down genes in animals to ...

read more Dr. Oliver Smithies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, has received the Commemorative Medal of the E.K Frey - E.Werle Foundation in Berlin, Germany. Together with two other researchers, he developed the read more Tue Jun 2007 Tue Jun 2007

Genetically Modified Stem Cells May Have Therapeutic Application To X-SCID

Categorie : Genetics
A study demonstrating therapeutic utilization of human stem cells, including potential application to X-linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (XSCID or "Bubble-Boy" disease) was presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene Therapy (ASGT) in Seattle. [click link for full art ...

read more A study demonstrating therapeutic utilization of human stem cells, including potential application to X-linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (XSCID or read more Mon Jun 2007 Mon Jun 2007

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols Features Methods To Understand Embryos, Clones, Stem Cells

Categorie : Genetics
Cloning, X-chromosome inactivation, stem cells, and embryogenesis are hot areas of research at the moment, and protocols featured in this month's release of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols (http://www.cshprotocols.org/) will aid these studies. At the heart of these research areas are efforts to underst ...

read more Cloning, X-chromosome inactivation, stem cells, and embryogenesis are hot areas of research at the moment, and protocols featured in this month's release of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols (http://www.cshprotocols.org/) will aid these studies. At the heart of these research areas are efforts to underst read more Sun Jun 2007 Sun Jun 2007

Genome Canada, Genome Quebec And Universite De Montreal Launch P3G Consortium And CARTaGENE Project

Categorie : Genetics
The Honourable Maxime Bernier, Minister of Industry, and Mr. Raymond Bachand, Quebec Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export, and Minister of Tourism, along with Dr. Martin Godbout, President and CEO of Genome Canada, Mr. Paul L'Archeveque, President and CEO of Genome Quebec, and Mr. ...

read more The Honourable Maxime Bernier, Minister of Industry, and Mr. Raymond Bachand, Quebec Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export, and Minister of Tourism, along with Dr. Martin Godbout, President and CEO of Genome Canada, Mr. Paul L'Archeveque, President and CEO of Genome Quebec, and Mr. read more Sat Jun 2007 Sat Jun 2007

Disease That Cripples Newborns Study By UVa Researcher

Categorie : Genetics
Each year, the parents of an estimated one in 20,000 newborns are shocked to learn their child has type 1 congenital myotonic dystrophy (CDM1), a progressive and crippling genetic disorder. Although doctors know that babies inherit CDM1 from their mother and prenatal tests are available, many childr ...

read more Each year, the parents of an estimated one in 20,000 newborns are shocked to learn their child has type 1 congenital myotonic dystrophy (CDM1), a progressive and crippling genetic disorder. Although doctors know that babies inherit CDM1 from their mother and prenatal tests are available, many childr read more Sat Jun 2007 Sat Jun 2007

Co-Discoverer Of DNA Presented With His Own Genome Sequence

Categorie : Genetics
James Watson, Nobel Laureate and co-discoverer with Francis Crick of the DNA double helix was presented this week with his own genome sequence.Watson, who is also the father of the Human Genome project, is the first human to be given the data that surrounds his own personal genome sequence. The proj ...

read more James Watson, Nobel Laureate and co-discoverer with Francis Crick of the DNA double helix was presented this week with his own genome sequence.Watson, who is also the father of the Human Genome project, is the first human to be given the data that surrounds his own personal genome sequence. The proj read more Sat Jun 2007 Sat Jun 2007

Activity In Brain Synapses And Developmental Abnormalities Linked With Schizophrenia Gene

Categorie : Genetics
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) researchers have identified a function of neuregulin1 (NRG1), a gene previously linked to schizophrenia but whose role in the disease was unknown. "We found that when this gene or this pathway is impaired," explained CSHL's Bo Li. "It starts a chain reaction nega ...

read more Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) researchers have identified a function of neuregulin1 (NRG1), a gene previously linked to schizophrenia but whose role in the disease was unknown. read more Thu May 2007 Thu May 2007

Vical To Present At American Society Of Gene Therapy Annual Meeting

Categorie : Genetics
Vical Incorporated (Nasdaq: VICL) today announced that the company will present updates on multiple research and development projects over the course of the five-day annual meeting of the American Society of Gene Therapy (Seattle, May 30 - June 3). Non-clinical data to be presented include: -- Analy ...

read more Vical Incorporated (Nasdaq: VICL) today announced that the company will present updates on multiple research and development projects over the course of the five-day annual meeting of the American Society of Gene Therapy (Seattle, May 30 - June 3). Non-clinical data to be presented include: -- Analy read more Thu May 2007 Thu May 2007

Genome Of Botulism Reveals The Background To The World's Deadliest Toxin

Categorie : Genetics
The genome of the organism that produces the world's most lethal toxin has been revealed. This toxin is the one real weapon in the genome of Clostridium botulinum and less than 2 kg - the weight of two bags of sugar - is enough to kill every person on the planet. Very small amounts of the same toxin ...

read more The genome of the organism that produces the world's most lethal toxin has been revealed. This toxin is the one real weapon in the genome of Clostridium botulinum and less than 2 kg - the weight of two bags of sugar - is enough to kill every person on the planet. Very small amounts of the same toxin read more Wed May 2007 Wed May 2007

College Attendance Boosts Heavy Drinking In Students At Genetic Risk

Categorie : Genetics
New research suggests that college attendance exacerbates the inborn propensity of certain young adults to become heavy alcohol users. The implications of the findings aren't clear, said study lead author David Timberlake, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of California at Irv ...

read more New research suggests that college attendance exacerbates the inborn propensity of certain young adults to become heavy alcohol users. The implications of the findings aren't clear, said study lead author David Timberlake, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of California at Irv read more Mon May 2007 Mon May 2007

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