Identification of genetic risk factor for coeliac disease promises improved treatment
... Chief Executive of Coeliac UK said: This research heralds an important breakthrough in understanding better who is likely to develop coeliac disease. Around 1 in 100 people develop the disease but predicting who is susceptible is like searching for a needle in a haystack. Currently genetic testing is a blun...University of Manchester researchers reveal clues to new genes behind rheumatoid arthritis
...venues for treatments, the success of the approach heralds exciting advances in the study of the genetics of disease. It has identified a wealth of genes implicated in coronary heart disease, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, Crohn's disease, bipolar disorder and hypertension, as well as RA. Some of these genes ar...European launch of International Polar Year 2007-2008
...round 50,000 people from more than 60 nations, IPY heralds a new era in polar science. At a time when climate change is being debated at the highest political levels, and its social and economic effects are being felt in many European countries, polar research has never been more important --or more releva...Crop development efforts get major boost
... will link with existing facilities at IRRI and it heralds a new era in rice research, especially in such areas as the development of improved crop varieties. "After several years of talking about a common platform for the development of new rice, wheat or maize varieties, we are now ready for real-world imp...Deleted genes help predict outcome in a children's cancer
...er of copies, of a cancer-causing gene called MYCN heralds a high-risk, aggressive form of neuroblastoma. However, some 60 percent of high-risk neuroblastoma tumors do not show MYCN amplification, suggesting that other biological pathways are operating. Based on previous studies by Dr. Maris and other resear...Long sought-after flowering signal found
...ile others rely on the increase in day length that heralds the arrival of spring. Scientists have known since the 1930s that plants detect day length with their leaves. Since flowers form typically at the tip of branches, researchers concluded that a signal that induces flowering must travel from the leaves...MIT develops 'Anklebot' for stroke patients
...rther such work on lower extremity movement. "This heralds a transition of therapeutic robotics from research to practice, similar to when computers went from being specialized number-crunchers for engineering and science to the ubiquitous consumer appliances for word-processing and presentation that we use ...Most common lung cancers may begin in newly discovered cells
...n our understanding of lung tumorigenesis, it also heralds the arrival of a valuable mouse model for identifying those cells that should be the targets of therapeutic intervention," wrote Anton Berns of The Netherlands Cancer Center in Amsterdam in an accompanying commentary in Cell. The identification of th......er of copies, of a cancer-causing gene called MYCN heralds a high-risk, aggressive cancer. However, a significant number of neuroblastomas are aggressive without having amplified MYCN. "The deletion of genetic material on chromosome 11 may account for a significant percentage of these high-risk neuroblastoma...