Genetics News

Using zebrafish, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have identified and described an enzyme inhibitor that allows them to increase the number of cardiac progenitor cells and therefore influence the size of the developing heart.

Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues at the University of California San Francisco have found a connection between DNA alterations on human chromosome 9 and aggressive brain cancer known as glioblastoma.

The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation announced today that its 2009 Neuroscience Prize will be awarded to Michael Rosbash, professor and director of the National Center for Behavioral Genomics at Brandeis.

An analysis of the association between genetic variations of the inflammation biomarker C-reactive protein with coronary heart disease failed to support a causal association, according to a study in the July 1 issue of JAMA.

Research led by the German Institute of Human Nutrition has identified a new gene associated with diabetes, together with a mechanism that makes obese mice less susceptible to diabetes.

New research published in Nature suggests that genes affecting the immune system may be linked to schizophrenia.

Scientists have unlocked "the secrets of schizophrenia", according to The Independent.

Main Category: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Also Included In: Genetics ; Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 01 Jul 2009 - 6:00 PDT The potential of forest biotechnology to help address significant social and environmental issues is being "strangled at birth" by the rigid opposition of some groups and regulations that effectively preclude ...

Practice, practice, practice might get you to Carnegie Hall, but for aspiring musicians, there's new evidence that genes may influence one's ability to get there, as well.

The largest study of the genetics of schizophrenia ever undertaken has revealed several new common single-letter variants in the sequence of the human genome linked to risk of the disease.

Schizophrenia is a devastating mental disease, thought to be caused by the interaction of both genetic and environmental factors.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NIH News National Institute of Mental Health Embargoed for Release: Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 1:00 PM EDT CONTACT: Jules Asher, NIMH Press Office, 301-443-4536, A trio of genome-wide studies -- collectively the largest to date -- have pinpointed a vast array of genetic ...

The journal Nature held a big press conference in London Wednesday, at the World Conference of Science Journalists , to unveil three large studies of the genetics of schizophrenia.

Ms Evelyne Vanneste, a PhD student in the Centre for Human Genetics and the University Fertility Center, Leuven University, Belgium, told the 25th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today , that the surprising finding meant that current techniques used in preimplantation genetic screening , where embryos ...

Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have played a major role in an international effort that has shown, for the first time, that modern genetic technologies can solve the riddle of how gene variations lead to schizophrenia.

Because females carry two copies of the X chromosome to males' one X and one Y, they harbor a potentially toxic double dose of the over 1000 genes that reside on the X chromosome.

A handful of typos in a mysterious region of the human genetic code are connected to a slightly higher risk of schizophrenia, new studies show.

An 84-year-old University of Chicago researcher has won a half-million-dollar genetics prize for her pioneering work in showing that cancer is a genetic disease.

A blood protein that only a short time ago was thought by some to be more important than cholesterol in heart disease now appears to be little more than a bystander.

Women who have a diminished number of eggs in their ovaries, either because they are older or for some other reason such as ovarian surgery, may be more at risk of a trisomic pregnancy than women with an ovarian reserve within the normal, fertile range.