Therapy to overcome fears helps children with obsessive-compulsive disorder
...e prevention therapy could be used together, or in sequence with medication, to reduce symptoms more effectively.......e pairs acting as the 'stairs' in a staircase. The sequence of these base pairs stores genetic information. During cell division genetic material is copied and the enzymes responsible for this must be able to transcribe the base sequences. This is only possible if the portion of DNA to be transcribed is unwou...Stanford gut check shows diversity of intestinal ecosystem
...g project, which produced orders of magnitude more sequence data than had been generated in the past, we are n...advantage of a technique that compares the genetic sequence of a molecule shared by bacteria and archaea. The molecule, 16S rRNA, plays a role in the translatio...Chemical library aids in developing drug system for nerve damage
...riate time scale. In conjunction with the sequence technique, Sakiyama-Elbert and her group developed a mathematical model that identifies the kind of drug release desired as a basis to narrow down the range of affinities they want to identify from the library. Between the modeling and future experi...Fifteen-year hunt uncovers gene behind 'pseudothalidomide' syndrome
.... Then, the international team compared the human sequence of the genes to those from chimpanzee, mouse, rat, chicken and zebrafish, and to the gene sequences of the affected family members. One segment of a gene called ESCO2 that was identical in all the animals contained changes that disrupted the gene's p...Study shows that a kidney transplant can reverse heart failure
..., "This is an amazing study. It reverses the usual sequence of scientific inquiry from laboratory bench to patient bedside. Instead, astute observation at the bedside is prompting investigators to the laboratory, where they can systematically seek to understand why kidney transplantation successfully treats h...