Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Clinical Data, Inc. (NASDAQ:CLDA), a leader in the development of targeted therapeutics and predictive tests from its growing portfolio of proprietary genetic biomarkers, announced that its PGxHealth™ division has achieved significant growth in positive reimbursement policies for its FAMILION® genetic test for Long QT Syndrome (LQTS).
Since January 1, 2008, additional ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Adult stem cells may provide an explanation for the cause of a Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS), a rare disease that causes premature aging in children, according to researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). These findings, the first to indicate a biological ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Like any species that aspires to rule the world, the honey bee, Apis mellifera, invades new territories in repeated assaults. A new study demonstrates that when these honey bees arrive in a place that has already been invaded, the newcomers benefit from the genetic endowment of their predecessors.
The findings appear ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
The Genetics and Public Policy Center will conduct a series of public town hall meetings to gather feedback from the public on their views related to a proposed large cohort study on the role of genes and environment in health. The town halls are part of a public consultation effort ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
The number of Americans taking advantage of precautionary DNA testing appears to be going down, and the reason is thought to be fear of genetic discrimination from health insurers and employers.
Some health experts are so concerned that they have called for new legislation to protect US citizens from being discriminated ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
A better understanding of how memory works is emerging from a newfound ability to link a learning experience in a mouse to consequent changes in the inner workings of its neurons. Researchers, supported in part by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), have developed a ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
A study conducted on 346 19-month-old twins by an international team led by Universite Laval professor of psychology Michel Boivin reveals that the genetic and environmental bases of hormonal response to stress depend on the context in which a child grows up. This is the first time such an effect ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Diabetes is often characterized by a failure of insulin production by pancreatic Beta-cells to properly regulate glucose homeostasis. Insulin resistance can lead to ?-cell failure, and our studies have focused on elucidating the mechanisms involved in this postnatal failure.
This week in the open-access journal PLoS Biology, Katsuya Tanabe, James Woodgett, ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
A genetic variant in the Reelin gene increases the chances of developing schizophrenia but not men. At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Oxford, researchers conducted a study of this issue in the Ashkenzi Jewish population. They confirmed their findings through a global collaboration including populations and ...
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