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Fetal Genome Screening Could Prove Tragic
In a few years you will be able to order a transcript of your entire genetic code for less than $1,000. Adults cannot do much to alter their biological lot, but what if parents could examine their unborn child's genome? Without proper guidance, they might decide to take drastic measures--even to end the pregnancy--based on a misguided reading of the genetic tea leaves. [More]
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - January 18, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: More Science,Health,Society & Policy,Everyday Science,Medical Technology,More Science,Biotechnology,Ethics,Biology Source Type: news
The cell that isn't: New technique captures division of membrane-less cells
A new technique allows scientists to study cell division without a cell membrane. There are several advantages: it can be physically constrained and manipulated; one can access nuclei which is normally buried deep in an opaque embryo; the method ican be combined with a wide-range of fruit fly genetics techniques. The method has revealed that, surprisingly, confined space not enough to restrict spindle size.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 18, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news
One million Brits can 'dump their deodorants'
Conclusion
This is intriguing research following up on the previous finding that a particular DNA sequence variation in the ABCC11 gene is associated with both earwax and armpit sweat odour. One form of the variant is linked with dry earwax and less odorous sweat, while another is linked with wet earwax and more odorous sweat.
The researchers did find that there was a link between which variant mothers had and their deodorant usage. However, almost 80% of women with the dry earwax, “non-odorous” variant still reported using deodorant around once a week. The researchers’ results indicate the same may be true for men,...
Source: NHS News Feed - January 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Genetics/stem cells Source Type: news
Donated genetic data 'privacy risk'
Researchers have identified people in the US who anonymously donated their DNA for use in medical research - raising concerns about privacy.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - January 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
An association study of suicide and candidate genes in the serotonergic system - Buttenschøn HN, Flint TJ, Foldager L, Qin P, Christoffersen S, Hansen NF, Kristensen IB, Mortensen PB, Børglum AD, Mors O.
INTRODUCTION: Strong evidence demonstrates a genetic susceptibility to suicidal behaviour and a relationship between suicide and mental disorders. The aim of this study was to test for association between suicide and five selected genetic variants, which h...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - January 18, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news
Major Role Played By Genetics In Elementary School Victimization
Genetics plays a major role in peer rejection and victimization in early elementary school, according to a study recently published on the website of the journal Child Development by a team directed by Dr. Michel Boivin, a research professor at Université Laval's School of Psychology. To come to this conclusion, Boivin and his team tested over 800 twins at three time points: when they were in kindergarten, Grade 1, and Grade 4...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychology / Psychiatry Source Type: news
Viruses Prompt Oncogenic Transformation By Genetically Altering Infected Cells As Seen In Hepatitis B
Several recent studies have demonstrated that viruses alter the expression of microRNAs, non-coding RNA molecules that can block the expression of target genes. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Xiaoje Xu and colleagues at the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology report that miR-148a is repressed by hepatitis B virus (HBV) X protein (HBx) to promote growth and metastasis of liver cancer...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Liver Disease / Hepatitis Source Type: news
Simple Blood Test Reveals DNA Marker That Predicts Breast Cancer Recurrence
Medical researchers at the University of Alberta tested the DNA of more than 300 women in Alberta and discovered a 'genetic marker' method to help accurately profile which women were more apt to have their breast cancer return years later. Sambasivarao Damaraju, a professor with the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, and at the Cross Cancer Institute just published his team's findings in the peer-reviewed journal, PLoS One...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: news
Tumors Flourish In Inflammed Tissue; Readdition Of SPARC Reduces Inflammation And Stops Proliferation
Body's ibuprofen, SPARC, reduces inflammation and thus bladder cancer development and metastasis Cancer researchers are increasingly aware that in addition to genetic mutations in a cancer itself, characteristics of the surrounding tissue can promote or suppress tumor growth. One of these important tissue characteristics is inflammation - most cancers prosper in and attach to inflamed tissue and so many cancers have developed ways to create it...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer / Oncology Source Type: news
If your genome is public, so are you, researchers find
Using public websites, a team has uncovered the names of supposedly anonymous people who had their DNA analyzed for research purposes. 'Nobody can promise privacy,' one expert says.Scouring information available to anyone with an Internet connection, a team of genetic sleuths deduced the names of dozens of supposedly anonymous people who had their DNA analyzed for scientific and medical research.
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - January 18, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news
Batten disease: Rare genetic disease claims lives of two siblings
John Philpott, 16, and his sister Bridie, 13, from Essex, were the only people in Britain to have a rare strand of Battens disease.
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A Little Digging Unmasks DNA Donor Names
Genetic information stored anonymously in databases doesn't always stay that way, a new study revealed, prompting a debate on how much privacy participants in scientific research can expect in the Internet era.
Source: WSJ.com: Health - January 17, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: FREE Source Type: news
It's Legal For Some Insurers To Discriminate Based On Genes
A 2008 federal law is supposed to protect people from having their genes used against them. But it only applies to health insurance — not, for example, long-term-care insurance. That's exactly the type of insurance people might seek after learning they're genetically predisposed to some medical problem down the road.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Source: NPR Health and Science - January 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Anonymous DNA Donors Identified
Genetic information stored anonymously in databases doesn't always stay that way, a new study revealed, prompting a debate on how much privacy participants in scientific research can expect in the Internet era.
Source: WSJ.com: Health - January 17, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PAID Source Type: news
Adolescent stress linked to severe adult mental illness, mouse study suggests
Working with mice, researchers have established a link between elevated levels of a stress hormone in adolescence -- a critical time for brain development -- and genetic changes that, in young adulthood, cause severe mental illness in those predisposed to it.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 17, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news
Search of DNA Sequences Reveals Full Identities
Surprising results from a DNA researcher highlight the growing tension between the advancement of medical research and privacy concerns.
Source: NYT Health - January 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By GINA KOLATA Tags: Koenig, Barbara Genetics and Heredity Google Inc GOOG NASDAQ DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) National Institutes of Health Privacy Whitehead Institute National Human Genome Research Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology Source Type: news
Vulnerabilities in security of personal genetic information
Using only a computer, an Internet connection, and publicly accessible online resources, researchers have been able to identify nearly 50 individuals who had submitted personal genetic material as participants in genomic studies.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 17, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news
Evolution, Genetics and Environmental Adaptation
Some populations living at high elevations have evolved over time to adapt to low oxygen levels. By analyzing the genomes of the Amhara group in Ethiopia, researchers found that these high-altitude natives have a genetic variant linked to low hemoglobin levels in blood—a trait that makes them less susceptible to chronic mountain sickness. Native highlanders in Tibet have a similar trait, but the researchers determined that the two groups adapted to the same environmental stress through different genetic and physiological mechanisms. This research may shed light on conditions related to low blood oxygen levels, such as as...
Source: NIGMS Biomedical Beat - January 17, 2013 Category: Research Source Type: news
New key to organism complexity identified
Researchers have discovered that the transcription factor protein TFIID coexists in two distinct structural states, a key to genetic expression and TFIID's ability to initiate the process by which DNA is copied into RNA.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 17, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news
NLM to Include AMA Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Codes in the Genetic Testing Registry
Source: NLM General Announcements - January 17, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Leprosy spreads by reprogramming nerve cells into migratory stem cells | Mo Costandi
The surprising modus operandi of a neglected tropical disease could lead to new stem cell therapiesThe bacterium that causes leprosy spreads through the body by converting nerve cells into stem cells with migratory properties, according to research published today in the journal Cell. The new findings could improve treatments for leprosy and other infectious diseases caused by bacteria, and help clinicians to diagnose them earlier. They may also provide a safe method for developing stem cell treatments for a wide variety of other conditions.Mycobacterium leprae is a parasitic bacterium that can only survive inside host cel...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 17, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Mo Costandi Tags: Health guardian.co.uk Neuroscience Editorial Medicine Source Type: news
Mouse Research Links Adolescent Stress and Severe Adult Mental Illness - 1/17/13
Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers have established a link between elevated levels of a stress hormone in adolescence - a critical time for brain development - and genetic changes that, in young adulthood, cause severe mental illness in those predisposed to it.
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - January 17, 2013 Category: Research Source Type: news
New Genetic Mutation For ALS Identified
Researchers at Western University in London, Canada, have identified a new genetic mutation for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), opening the door to future targeted therapies. Dr. Michael Strong, a scientist with Western's Robarts Research Institute and Distinguished University Professor in Clinical Neurological Sciences at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, and colleagues found that mutations within the ARHGEF28 gene are present in ALS...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Muscular Dystrophy / ALS Source Type: news
Gene Sequencing Program Gives Researchers New Leads To Improve Cancer Treatment
It started with a 44-year-old woman with solitary fibrous tumor, a rare cancer seen in only a few hundred people each year. By looking at the entire DNA from this one patient's tumor, researchers have found a genetic anomaly that provides an important clue to improving how this cancer is diagnosed and treated. Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center sequenced the tumor's genome through a new program called MI-ONCOSEQ, which is designed to identify genetic mutations in tumors that might be targeted with new therapies being tested in clinical trials...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer / Oncology Source Type: news
Genetically Engineered Bacteria May Improve The Efficacy Of Vaccines For Flu, Pertussis, Cholera, HPV
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a menu of 61 new strains of genetically engineered bacteria that may improve the efficacy of vaccines for diseases such as flu, pertussis, cholera and HPV. The strains of E. coli, which were described in a paper published this month in the journal PNAS, are part of a new class of biological "adjuvants" that is poised to transform vaccine design. Adjuvants are substances added to vaccines to boost the human immune response...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Immune System / Vaccines Source Type: news
New key to organism complexity identified
(DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers have discovered that the transcription factor protein TFIID coexists in two distinct structural states, a key to genetic expression and TFIID's ability to initiate the process by which DNA is copied into RNA.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - January 17, 2013 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Your Genetic Secrets May Not Be as Safe as You Think
Scientists able to identify men who had donated DNA to science by using their Y chromosome, the Internet
Source: Fertility News - Doctors Lounge - January 17, 2013 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: webmaster at doctorslounge.com Tags: Family Medicine, Reproductive Medicine, Research, News, Source Type: news
Mouse research links adolescent stress and severe adult mental illness
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers have established a link between elevated levels of a stress hormone in adolescence -- a critical time for brain development -- and genetic changes that, in young adulthood, cause severe mental illness in those predisposed to it.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - January 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
How are middle-aged women affected by burnout?
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) In contrast to previous research findings that showed burnout in middle-aged women to be stable over time, women in a new study were clustered into groups characterized by different developmental patterns of burnout.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - January 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
New Gene Variants Linked To Autism Discovered
Twenty-five extra gene variants that occur in some people with an ASD (autism spectrum disorder) have been discovered by genetics scientists from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Utah, and Lineagen Inc. (a biotech company). The research team, led by Hakon Hakonarson, MD, PhD, explained in the journal PLOS ONE that they identified 25 additional copy number variants (CNVs) that occur in some people with autism. CNVs are duplicate or missing stretches of DNA...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 16, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Autism Source Type: news
Autism And Genetics: It's Complicated
The latest news in autism and genetics, courtesy of Laura Blue writing at Time Healthland:
In one of the largest-ever studies of genetics and autism, researchers have identified 24 new gene variants associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The work also confirms that 31 variants previously linked to the developmental disorder may serve as useful genetic markers for identifying those with the condition.
The keyword for this study, one that doesn't appear in most news stories about it, is copy number variation, or CNV. The study authors, hailing from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, investigated rare CNVs occur...
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 16, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Emily Willingham Source Type: news
MPAs may reflect genetic risk for schizophrenia
Minor physical anomalies are more common in schizophrenia patients and their unaffected siblings than in mentally healthy individuals without a family history of the disorder, research shows.
Source: MedWire News - Schizophrenia - January 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Leopards and tigers in India: New genetics research underscores importance of protecting forest corridors
As rapid economic expansion continues to shape the Asian landscape on which many species depend, time is running out for conservationists aiming to save wildlife such as tigers and leopards. Scientists have used genetic analysis to find that the natural forest corridors in India are essential to ensuring a future for these species. According to two recent studies, these corridors are successfully connecting populations of tigers and leopards to ensure genetic diversity and gene flow.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 16, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news
Learning to Swim in the Pool of Genetic DataLearning to Swim in the Pool of Genetic Data
Increasingly swamped by genetic data you don't know what to do with? Dr. Mark Kris discusses a practical approach to staying afloat in the rising tide of genetic data. Medscape Hematology-Oncology
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - January 16, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hematology-Oncology Commentary Source Type: news
New big data firm to pioneer topological data analysis
Stanford University project goes commercial following groundbreaking research into cancer therapy and counter-terrorism strategy• More from the Guardian on big data• More data journalism and data visualisations from the GuardianA US big data firm is set to establish algebraic topology as the gold standard of data science with the launch of the world's leading topological data analysis (TDA) platform.Ayasdi, whose co-founders include renowned mathematics professor Gunnar Carlsson, launched today in Palo Alto, California, having secured $10.25m from investors including Khosla Ventures in the first round of funding.The fu...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 16, 2013 Category: Science Authors: John Burn-Murdoch Tags: United States Blogposts Big data Health guardian.co.uk Mathematics Drugs Technology Cancer Business Science News Source Type: news
Seeing inside the flu inside you | Stephen Curry
Two new studies have probed the genetic innards of the flu virus in unprecedented detail. But discrepancies between them also show us what a messy process science can be at timesWinter vomiting bug may have grabbed all the headlines over Christmas with a surge in infections but many of us who escaped the ravages of the dreaded Norovirus were still felled by that other pathogenic staple of the winter months, the flu.You never know exactly when you became infected – the influenza virus is so tiny you can't see it coming — but the aches and pains as your fever spikes and fluid erupts uncontrollably from your face leave y...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 16, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Stephen Curry Tags: Blogposts guardian.co.uk Science Source Type: news
New Clinical Targets Suggested For Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Researchers have shown that transplanting stem cells derived from normal mouse blood vessels into the hearts of mice that model the pathology associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) prevents the decrease in heart function associated with DMD. Their findings appear in the journal Stem Cells Translational Medicine. Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a genetic disorder caused by a mutation in the gene for dystrophin, a protein that anchors muscle cells in place when they contract. Without dystrophin, muscle contractions tear cell membranes, leading to cell death...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 16, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Muscular Dystrophy / ALS Source Type: news
24 New Autism-Related Gene Variants Identified
University of Utah (the U) researchers, in collaboration with several groups from around the country, published a paper following one of the biggest studies of its kind, that extends our understanding of genes related to autism spectrum diseases (ASDs) and advances methods for early detection and treatment. Nori Matsunami, M.D., Ph.D., a research scientist in the Department of Human Genetics at the U, was one of the three lead authors who contributed equally to the paper and worked with Mark Leppert, Ph.D., a distinguished professor in the Department of Human Genetics...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 16, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Autism Source Type: news
Poorly conducted research is a gift to the opponents of tobacco control | Suzi Gage
A study implicates genes in the failure of taxation to get heavy smokers to quit, but the findings are far from clearcutA recent research paper has suggested that the reason tobacco control policies do not work for everyone could be down to genetics. Blanket policies are unlikely to ever reach everyone, and evidence of their lack of success is often seized upon by those who believe any attempt at tobacco control is "nanny state nonsense".But how likely are these genetic results to be true? The research, conducted in the USA, compares rates of smoking, amount of taxation on cigarettes (which varies widely between states, fr...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 16, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Suzi Gage Tags: Blogposts Genetics Biology Health guardian.co.uk Smoking Society Science Source Type: news
UAlberta medical researchers find DNA marker that predicts breast cancer recurrence
(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) Medical researchers at the University of Alberta tested the DNA of more than 300 women in Alberta and discovered a 'genetic marker' method to help accurately profile which women were more apt to have their breast cancer return years later.
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - January 16, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
New drug pricing regime ‘unacceptably’ slow
NICE guidance need not be mandatory – says select committeeRelated items from OnMedicaGP pay for diabetes ‘must be reviewed’Push for more genetic testing on the NHSHome births safe and cost-effective for low-risk womenNICE reveals proposed new QOF targetsDoctors should take ‘TripAdvisor’ style info seriously
Source: OnMedica Latest News - January 16, 2013 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
NICE issues draft guideline on familial breast cancer for consultation
Source: NICE
Area: News
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published a draft guideline on the management of familial breast cancer, for consultation.
The draft guideline makes provisional recommendations on issues including - when to offer genetic testing, what surveillance strategies should and should not be offered, and the use of tamoxifen or raloxifene as treatments to prevent breast cancer.
The closing date for comments is 25 February 2013.
An embargoed version of the final guideline will be available to stakeholder organisations that comm...
Source: NeLM - News - January 16, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
New biomarker may help in detecting gliomas, reports Neurosurgery
(Wolters Kluwer Health) Researchers using sophisticated genetic testing techniques have identified a promising new biomarker for diagnosis of glioma -- the most common type of malignant brain tumor, reports the January issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 16, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Developed new method to diagnose hereditary breast and ovarian cancer
(IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) Researchers of the Catalan Institute of Oncology at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute have developed and validated a new method to diagnose hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome based on mass sequencing of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. The model is based on a genetic and bioinformatic analysis which has been proved very effective. The new protocol has been described in an article published in the European Journal of Human Genetics.
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - January 16, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Embracing debate on how cancers develop: Without the answer, effective therapies remain elusive
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Disruptive Science and Technology has launched a Debate section in which ideas and counterpoints can be debated in public. The Journal seeks not to sway opinions but rather to inform them. The first series of debates focuses on the cause of cancer.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 16, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Genetics plays major role in victimization in elementary school
(Université Laval) Genetics plays a major role in peer rejection and victimization in early elementary school, according to a study recently published on the website of the journal Child Development by a team directed by Dr. Michel Boivin, a research professor at Université Laval's School of Psychology.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - January 16, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Designer Bacteria May Lead To Better Vaccines
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a menu of 61 new strains of genetically engineered bacteria that may improve the efficacy of vaccines for diseases such as flu, pertussis, cholera and HPV.
Source: Pharmaceutical Online News - January 15, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Myriad Genetics to Announce Second Fiscal Quarter 2013 Results on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 15, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Myriad Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq:MYGN) today announced that it will issue financial results for the second fiscal quarter 2013 following the close of market on Tuesday, February 5, 2013.
Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE) - January 15, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
For Some Children, Autism Symptoms May Fade with Age
Researchers not sure whether treatment or genetics explain the phenomenon, but suspect both play a part
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Autism, Children's Health
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - January 15, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
