News tagged with “chromosomes”. Found:
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Researchers herald cancer test breakthrough
Sydney :: Australia | 2 days ago
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Researchers hope the new test will also lead to new anti-cancer treatments for the most aggressive cancers, such as brain and bone cancer. They are also confident the test will provide more accurate life expectancy for patients. Dr Jeremy Henson made...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Pathology, Brain tumor, Prostate cancer, Institute of Cancer Research, Oncology, Cancer, Occupational safety and health, Health Medical Pharma, Telomerase, Molecular biologists, Children's Medical Research Institute, Elizabeth Blackburn, Chromosomes, Telomere, Genetics
Childhood abuse 'quickens ageing'
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility Childhood abuse 'speeds up body's ageing process' Physical or emotional abuse during childhood could speed up the body's ageing process, US research suggests. A team from Brown University focused on telomeres, the protective caps on the chromosomes that...
Tags: ageing process, childhoods abuse, United Kingdom, London, Gerontology, Telomere, Ageing, DNA, Child abuse, Aging, Genetics, Chromosomes, Health Medical Pharma
Mutant genes 'key to long life'
London :: United Kingdom | 10 days ago
Credibility Scientists from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the US say centenarian Ashkenazi Jews have this mutant gene. They found that 86 very old people and their children had higher levels of telomerase which protects the DNA. They say it may be possible...
Tags: higher levels, mutant gene, United Kingdom, London, Gerontology, Telomere, Telomerase, Ageing, DNA, Genetics, Chromosomes, Aging, Health Medical Pharma
Scientists zero in on one key for living to 100
Mumbai :: India | 11 days ago
Credibility In a breakthrough study, scientists have found an apparent key to living till 100 years- an inherited cellular repair mechanism that thwarts aging and perhaps helps prevent disease. Researches at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University...
Tags: telomere length, India, Mumbai, Genetics, DNA replication, Telomerase, Telomere, Ageing, Gerontology, Aging, Chromosomes, Health Medical Pharma
Platypus genome is a mish-mash of reptilian, avian and mammalian genomes!
Biologists always considered platypus as one of the most unique animals that is so hard to accurately classify in any phyla of the animal kingdom. It now makes sense how correctly confused they had always been about this egg-laying...
Tags: Platypus, chromosomes, genetic sequence, mammals, reptiles, avian, egg-laying mammal
Businessweek: What Gene Tests Can Really Tell You
Chapel Hill :: NC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility If Greg Lennon is right, then the personal genome gold rush has a major flaw: There's not much gold there—not yet. In the past year, companies have launched high-profile efforts to read the future in people's genes. Me collects saliva samples from its...
Tags: genome, chromosomes
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