Genes
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Blake H.
I’m a regular reader of Weighty Matters. Always great reads. Here’s a couple of excerpts from a recent post that I ...
Genes and Depression
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Katherine S.
Here's some news I saw on msn.com today about women and depression. Note especially the part I highlighted:FRIDAY, Jan. 13 (Hea ...
Gene Wilder
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Katherine B.
I know it's unfair to use a picture from one of Gene Wilder's earliest films (1971) but no matter how time moves on it's the pic ...
Going genes shopping...
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Carrie A.
I read a new study outlining a potential gene therapy treatment for obesity. The point is not the potential for gene therapy (it ...
Turn On Your Genes!
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Dr. Craig R.
A very cool new study showed that old-timers can turn on their genes. Researchers compared the muscle tissue from old men versu ...
The Origin of Genes
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Dr. Shock
The human genome contains some 25,000 genes. Where did they come from? How are new genes formed? Before continuing with the Orig ...
CLOCK gene
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Laura
One interesting line of research connects mental illness to dysfunction of of circadian rhythms. Circadian rhythms involve the ...
No Gene is an Island
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Dr. Steve Murphy
This is a saying I have been using for about 4 years now. When someone asked about testing for HFE and why we don't do it as th ...
Web Resources
What are gene families? - Genetics Home Reference A gene family is a group of genes that share important characteristics. In many cases, genes in a family share a similar sequence of DNA building blocks ...
Gene FAQ The names (symbols) and full descriptions used in Gene come from 4 major sources : ... Updates to names in Entrez Gene are not propagated immediately to all ...
Gene - Glossary Entry - Genetics Home Reference A gene is an ordered sequence of nucleotides located in a particular position on a particular chromosome that encodes a specific functional product (i.e., ...
Sleep Disorders - It May Be in Your Genes Sep 21, 2009 ... "Gene" is a word used often in today's world - gene pool, gene therapy. genetics . But what, exactly is a gene? The US National Library of ...
Genes Genes are the basic units of heredity. A gene is a short piece of DNA, which tells the body how to build a specific protein. There are approximately 30000 ...
Gene Therapy for HIV - The Body Manipulating the body's cells and genes to treat disease holds great potential, but it is a field of research in its infancy. It will likely not yield ...
Gene Transfer Therapy for Alzheimer's Learn how researchers are using gene transfer technology to treat Alzheimer's. Print. TRANSCRIPT: Experimental Gene Transfer Therapy for Alzheimer's ...
News
Gene Leahy Mall aglow By Paul Goodsell A million tiny lights glowed over Omaha's Gene Leahy Mall this evening as the city began its annual Holiday Lights Festival. ...
Experts Scan Disease Links With Chinese "Gene Map" By Tan Ee Lyn HONG KONG (Reuters) - A large analysis of the genes of 8200 ethnic Chinese has revealed subtle genetic differences between inhabitants in ...
Anatomic Demarcation of Cells: Genes to Patterns Recent progress in functional genomics and chromatin biology illustrates how cells use specific gene expression programs to encode location. ...