How genes help to survive dehydration
Russian scientists with their colleagues from Japan and the USA have studied the genetic adaptations of the body to dehydration.
12.09.2014Russian scientists with their colleagues from Japan and the USA have studied the genetic adaptations of the body to dehydration.
12.09.2014One of the 14 thousand long non–coding RNAs tested by researchers - FAL1 (focally amplified lncRNA on chromosome 1) had all the signs of an RNA oncogene. Its overexpression was found in cells of 12 types of cancer.
09.09.2014Examination of DNA found on one of the evidence suggests that at least five brutal murders attributed to this maniac were committed by Aaron Kosminsky, a Jewish emigrant from Poland.
08.09.2014The highest frequency of mutation that spoils the gene and the protein receptor that binds to the immunodeficiency virus is in Northwestern Europe: Finns, Estonians and northern Russians. There, the number of carriers of this mutation reaches 25%.
29.08.2014According to scientists from the University of Edinburgh, Crohn's disease is associated with epigenetic disorders of certain parts of certain genes, which are caused by exposure to environmental factors or even a certain diet.
27.08.2014The world places great hopes on stem cells, expecting that they will revolutionize medicine. But to use their potential, you need to understand how their development is regulated. New ideas are put forward by scientists from the University of Southern Denmark.
26.08.2014Sometimes a recessive mutation in homozygotes (organisms with two copies of the mutant gene) causes disease, and heterozygotes (with one copy) allows them to better adapt to living conditions.
18.08.2014Google's scientific division, Google X, has launched a major project called The Baseline Study. The purpose of the project is to collect information to compile the most complete picture of human health.
18.08.2014A Russian participant in the project to create a genetic atlas of cancer spoke about the study of the molecular picture of a type of lung cancer that is not associated with smoking – lung adenocarcinoma.
11.07.2014Tibetans have rare alleles of this EPAS1 gene, which, among other things, increase the amount of hemoglobin in the blood. The same "Tibetan" alleles are found in the genome of the Denisov man.
11.07.2014Thousands of hours spent playing a musical instrument will not necessarily make a new Paganini or Horowitz out of a student in the absence of a genetic predisposition.
09.07.2014The human genome contains only one thousandth of the unique information that is responsible for his personal uniqueness. This information will fit on one ancient 3.5-inch floppy disk.
07.07.2014Beta-amyloid, which forms insoluble plaques in nerve cells in Alzheimer's disease, has traditionally been considered the main cause of neurotoxicity in this disease, but in reality the situation is not so simple.
02.07.2014The risk of developing the three most common types of cancer (breast, prostate or colon) is mainly determined by hereditary predisposition.
02.07.20146 facts about errors in DNA replication and repair, hereditary diseases and mildly harmful mutations.
01.07.2014Studying individual genomes turned out to be a much more difficult task than previously thought. The reason for this is the different rate of aging of the genome in different people and the aging of different genes within the same genome.
01.07.2014Both carriers of the mutant copy of BRCA1 and those who do not have it, by analyzing free DNA in the blood, it is possible to find a molecular "signature" associated with the level of DNA methylation in certain parts of the genome long before the onset of the disease.
27.06.2014There is no such mutation in the genome of Europeans, but it occurs in 23% of Greenlanders. 60% of individuals over the age of 40 who inherited a certain variant of the TBC1D4 gene from both parents suffer from type 2 diabetes mellitus.
19.06.2014Scientists at the Vale Medical College in Qatar have compiled a map of the metabolism of the human body, revealing the work of metabolism as a system and possible ways to change it for the treatment of diseases.
19.06.2014Biologist Anton Buzdin – about cancer cells, genome rearrangement in oncological diseases, personalized medicine and the use of targeted drugs in the treatment of cancer.
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