Gene variant increases risk for alcoholism following childhood abuse
Girls who suffered childhood sexual abuse are more likely to develop alcoholism later in life if they posses...r not all abused children develop such problems, a likely indication that genetic factors also play a role. Recent studies have linked the monoamine oxidase A......played a key role in discovering that bats are the likely host of a new virus that can cause a serious but apparently non-fatal respiratory tract illness in humans. As reported today in the internationally renowned journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PN...Frog molecule could provide drug treatment for brain tumors
...ack the cancer cells. As a treatment, it is most likely to be injected into the area where it is needed. I... in the very early stages of development, so it is likely to be several years and many trials before it could be developed into a treatment for patients, said...Cord blood may preserve insulin levels in children with type 1 diabetes
... We think the immune regulation hypothesis is more likely than the hypothesis that stem cells are forming in...hild to the mother during pregnancy, and these are likely to be the ones which are useful for treatment in type 1 diabetes. Together with our work, showing th...Scientists identify first gene linked to scoliosis
... remained unclear. That's because the condition is likely caused by several different genes that work in concert with one another -- and the environment -- to cause scoliosis. Bowcock predicts that scientists will soon find other genes involved in the disease. The CHD7 gene is thought to play a critical r...Which came first: Primates' ability to see colorful food or see colorful sex?
...es did evolve, species that possessed it were more likely than not to evolve red-orange pelage and skin (whi...ern primates that possess this adaptation are more likely to be highly social and have red-orange traits used in communication and mate choice decisions...Specialized, bone-crushing wolves of Alaska disappeared long ago
...arming threatens to eliminate the tundra and it is likely that this will mean the extinction of this important predator, she said....Revealed -- Mosquito genes that could be controlling the spread of killer viruses
... static but evolve and differentiate rapidly, most likely in response to the different pathogens which each insect species encounters, says Dr Christophides. Professor Fotis Kafatos, senior researcher of Imperials immunogenomics lab and co-author of the paper, explains the significance of their study, say...Pregnancy nausea/vomiting may indicate lower risk of breast cancer
...ting during pregnancy has yet to be pinpointed, it likely is a result of changing levels of ovarian and placental hormone production, which may include higher circulating levels of a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin, said David Jaworowicz, Jr., first author on the study. In vitro studies have...Gene therapy study shows safety and statistically significant improvement in Parkinson's disease
...ng treatment suggests that the improvement was not likely due to the surgical lesioning of the targeted brain region, as surgical approaches typically give rise to immediate, short-lasting benefit around the time of surgery, while prior studies of AAV-mediated gene therapy show that gene expression graduall...Study: Donated embryos could result in more than 2,000 new embryonic stem cell lines
...bryos, 60 percent of patients report that they are likely to donate their embryos to stem cell research, a l... (49 percent) indicated they were somewhat or very likely to donate their frozen embryos to medical research. When asked about stem cell research in particula...Wright State scientist receives grant to help clean up polluted American harbors
...tem to provide statistically based rankings of the likely dominant physical and chemical contaminants across the site. The two major contributions of this research will be (1) development of an integrated capability to assess sites for ecological risk and recovery using accurate exposure and effects data...The mouflons of the Kerguelen archipelago
...mall isolated populations, related individuals are likely to reproduce amongst themselves, resulting in inbreeding and homozygotes. The genetic variety of the population becomes impoverished and its evolutionary potential decreases. Furthermore, consanguinity is known to produce genetic diseases. The most h......um and phosphorus levels and in bulk density, most likely due to fertilization and trampling that is typically associated with turf areas. Researchers also discovered differences in soil pH between residences and other land uses dominated by turgrass, such as transportation and commercial corridors. Scien...St. Jude shows gene test not needed if cancer drug given in low doses
...if children with the UGT1A1*28 gene variation were likely to suffer the same toxicity even if they received irinotecan in 10 small doses over two weeks instead of one large dose. The St. Jude team conducted a retrospective study of 74 children who had received this low-dose treatment for any of a variety ...Another sexual attraction is possible ...
...heir common use of a highly specific "language" is likely to decrease the fitness of mutants that might use slightly different signals. Such "atypical" individuals would either - and most probably - die without leaving any offspring, or - in the unlikely event that they find a mutant partner - they might fo...Fever after smallpox vaccination tied to individual genetic variations
... received the vaccine for the first time were more likely to develop fever, but Stanley says, We were able to identify specific genetic alterations that contribute to fever even in people who had already received the vaccine before. The research team found that variations in the IL-1 gene complex on chrom...Does stimulant treatment for ADHD increase risk of drug abuse?
...kg dose of methylphenidate were significantly less likely to press a lever to self-administer cocaine, and received fewer self-initiated infusions of the drug following eight months of treatment than the lower-dose group or the control rats. The changes observed in brain chemistry were specific to the age...Researchers discover 'acquired' DNA key to certain bacterial infection
...ers from its Mycobacterium cousins. Such evolution likely took place over thousands of years, he pointed out, and may have come from a pathogen which also has the ability to infect environmental amoeba.......yonic stem cells, which means those cells are less likely to yield mice with the desired stretch of DNA disabled, Capecchi says. To quickly, cheaply mutate genes or none-gene DNA, Wu and Capecchi used short pieces of DNA known as loxP. Pieces of loxP act like signposts saying, Cut the DNA between these t...