MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'epigenetic'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:36:45 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3298460&cid=t_105267_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2FNVho1duYvkc%2F (Editor’s Note: In 1990, Congress designated the 1990s the “Decade of the Brain.” President George H. W. Bush proclaimed, “A new era of discovery is dawning in brain research.” During the ensuing decade, scientists greatly advanced our understanding of the brain. The editors of Cerebrum asked the directors of seven brain-related institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify the biggest advances, greatest disappointments, and missed opportunities of brain research in the past decade—the decade after the “Decade of the Brain.” They also asked them what looks most promising for the coming decade, the 2010s. Experts focused on research that might change how doctors diagnose and treat human brain disorders.) Neuroscience is at a historic turning point. To... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3298460 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:54:38 +0100 3298460 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3159919&cid=t_105267_131_f&fid=35743&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fgotta-love-it-even-daycare.html So the other day I go to pick up my oldest and the businesswoman who runs the show said to me "I have a question" I quickly see her Time Magazine with the cover which asks "Can we change our genes"I immediately launch into a diatribe about epigenetics. The current state of epigenetics is even murkier than micro RNAs. I basically go on a rant and at the end she says "So can those cigarettes I smoked as a kid screw up my grandson?"OMFG!!! This is why I hate TIME magazine. AND the lay press, AND the secondary education system in this country...AND.........Ok, here is the real take on Epigenetics. It is a control system, plain and simple, just like these RNAs and whatever else may control t he rate at which DNA does its dance.Monogenetic disease importance is pretty clear.... Gene Broken (of i... Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3159919 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:40:00 +0100 3159919 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2616814&cid=t_105267_131_f&fid=35743&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fim-all-for-change-but-this.html I hope you can get a deep understanding of how absolutely and completely worse off we will be with this complicated system. You can say, "well can't the US government track submarines underwater while also tracking missles overhead and STILL collect taxes?" They can, but this is even more complex. Listen, it would be nice to have a cheaper Not For Profit system out there to pay for care. Remember, having access to health insurance, is NOT having access to healthcare.......It's having access to health insurance. I don't know if anyone reads Investors Business Daily, I do and on Wednesday I read something which almost made me $h!t my pants. The House bill went public all 1018 pages of it.....On Page 16 there is something very, very scary on it.........From IBD (Not to be confused with Crohn'... Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2616814 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:35:00 +0100 2616814 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1426711&cid=t_105267_109_f&fid=35671&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.anxietyinsights.info%2Fabuse_changes_brains_of_suicide_victims.htm By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Suicide victims who were abused as children have clear genetic changes in their brains, Canadian researchers reported on Tuesday in a finding they said shows neglect can cause biological effects. The findings offer potential ways to find people at high risk of suicide, and perhaps to treat them and prevent future suicides. More... © Thomson Reuters 2008 All rights reserved (Source: Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info) Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1426711 Wed, 07 May 2008 08:46:00 +0100 1426711 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487394&cid=t_105267_122_f&fid=35065&url=http%3A%2F%2Feideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fbeyond-dna-nurture-over-nature.html This neat story came from a surprising source, my daughter's Muse Magazine (sorry article not online). In an article entitled, You are the Guardian of Your Genes science and children's writer Diana Lutz reported on recent surprising discoveries that the epigenetic markers on the DNA of identical twins will dramatically with time (epigenetic markers are small chemical groups added to DNA). When the epigenetic markers of 3 year-old identical twins were compared, the results were nearly identical. By the time twins were 50 years old, though, four-fold increases in variations between epigenetic markers were seen. What's more, the changes were more dramatic if the twins were raised separately and had no contact up until that point. The data are interesting, too, because animals studies have sug... Eide Neurolearning Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487394 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:02:00 +0100 487394