ASU law professor receives NIH grant
...ge of genetic factors that affect individual human susceptibility to environmental pollution. The law needs to adju... will survey the impacts new data on human genetic susceptibility to adverse environmental factors has on existing laws and regulations. It will analyze how the new ...Pitt researchers find genes for depression; Play role in mood disorders, shorter lifespan
... the entire human genome for genes that affect the susceptibility of individuals to developing clinical depression. ...somes where genes reside that appear to influence susceptibility to depressive disorders. The results extended the investigators' previous finding that a small regio...Finished Y-chromosome sequence reveals a genomic 'crystal palace'
...to genomic explanations for differences in disease susceptibility between men and women. Sex chromosomes in animals ...tionally assumed that these differences in disease susceptibility reflect the action of sex hormones, and not the action of the sex chromosomes directly." But that as...Close communication between identical twins helps them live longer
...hat lasts into later life and could effect reduced susceptibility to disease or improved outcomes for illnesses. Frequent communication interacting with relatedness could have similar effects on non-twins as well," he wrote. Several earlier studies have demonstrated that longevity is influenced not only by smoking,...Heart drug might help fight chronic fungal infections
...with conditions like cystic fibrosis that increase susceptibility to chronic or recurring fungal infections, prolonged use of azoles can lead to the fungus becoming resistant to treatment. Finding a way to treat severe and life-threatening fungal infections with an option that boosts the effects of azoles without r...JCI table of contents, 2 June, 2003
...re prepared than previously thought The increased susceptibility of newborns to infectious diseases is generally ascribed to developmentally related deficiencies in immune function. A new study demonstrates the presence in newborns of a mature and functional immune response to a cytomegalovirus infection and sugge...Genetically modified crops not necessarily a threat to the environment
...s farmers reap benefits from the plants' decreased susceptibility to disease and increased marketplace value. IU bio...OxOx gene to sunflower crops may help reduce their susceptibility to mold....NIEHS, NTP director receives honorary doctorate
...ers partnering to isolate the first breast cancer susceptibility genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2. Many women in breast canc...nome Project, which studies humans varying genetic susceptibility to the environment, as well as the National Center for Toxicogenomics, which applies genetic technol...Researchers discover common cause for aging and age-related disease
...AF-2 pathway, they write, may delay both aging and susceptibility to this age-related disease, at least in part by increasing small heat-shock protein gene expression. "The small heat-shock proteins appear to be the link between aging and at least this age-related disease," Kenyon stresses. "And by regulating the s...New clues emerge about the fate of smog in Sierra Nevada forests
...e trees, inhibits growth and potentially increases susceptibility to diseases. "In order to relate the dose of ozone to the damage, we need to do a better job of quantifying uptake by the trees," said Meredith Kurpius, lead author of the study and a former UC Berkeley graduate student in ecosystem science. "The fo...Gene mutation in some uterine tumors may signal that cancer runs in family
...y thought carry mutations that signal an inherited susceptibility to cancer," says study leader Paul J. Goodfellow, ... some families that lack mutations in other cancer susceptibility genes." Goodfellow's team found that mutations in a gene known as MSH6 occur in at least 1.6 percent...Gene that controls susceptibility to tuberculosis discovered
...e (MUHC) have identified a gene that regulates the susceptibility to tuberculosis. This finding is published in this week's edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Tuberculosis, an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis, affects approximately 1.9 billion people ...Gene enhances prefrontal function at a price
...in its molecular structure and how it may increase susceptibility to schizophrenia . People with a common versio...on and perhaps how this might ultimately increase susceptibility to schizophrenia." A series of brain imaging studies by the NIMH researchers have shown that fronta...Ears can't hear when special sensory cells don't stay 'quiet'
...t might be possible one day to screen a person for susceptibility to hearing loss by measuring the level of Ink4d they have," Segil said. "We could use that information to warn people they are at increased risk for hearing loss due to trauma." The requirement that these cells must remain "quiet" (not divide) may me...TSRI scientists show that rare genetic mutations increase susceptibility to sepsis
...se rare mutations in a human gene called TLR4 lend susceptibility to meningococcal sepsis, which strikes over 2,500 ...d effort been made to find genetic determinants of susceptibility in the patient. Beutler and his team had to write special software to make the comparison of the tho...Gene variation raises risk of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
... at the University of Chicago has traced increased susceptibility to bipolar disorder to two overlapping genes found...be contribute to both disorders. "The discovery of susceptibility genes for psychiatric disorders has been one of the most intractable problems in human genetics," sa...Genetic abnormalities found in some ALS patients
...They may result in the disruption or alteration of susceptibility genes that haven't been identified yet," Meyer said. "Another possibility could be that an underlying mechanism of ALS that has yet to be determined could promote the development of these chromosomal abnormalities." Meyer said that studying chromosom...White noise delays auditory organization in brain
...d predictive tests. "If we knew that a child had a susceptibility to noise, we could intervene to enrich the child's acoustic experience to foster more normal auditory and language development," said Chang....Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...rly show that, depending on the hormone treatment, susceptibility of mice to genital herpes infection can vary signi...d, K. L. Rosenthal. 2003. Progesterone increases susceptibility and decreases immune responses to genital herpes infection. Journal of Virology, 77. 8: 4558-4565.)...... in the complex I proteins could change a person's susceptibility to developing Parkinson's disease. The scientists examined the mitochondrial DNA of 609 Parkinson's disease patients and 340 normal controls who had no signs of the disease. In particular, they looked at nine well-known and well-studied gene variatio...