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Medical Genetics: involves the application of genetics to medical care, including research on the causes and inheritance of genetic disorders, and their diagnosis and management.
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MAR 10, 2015Cell & Molecular Biology
BERKELEY -
When UC Berkeley bioengineers say they are holding their hearts in the palms of their hands, they are no ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 10, 2015Immunology
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY, have designed a new type of vaccine ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 09, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Thyroid hormones have important and diverse roles in human health and regulate metabolic rate. Thyroid disease is common ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 06, 2015Neuroscience
Researchers have for the first time successfully converted adult human skin cells into neurons of the type that regulate ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 06, 2015Genetics & Genomics
When it comes to gene expression - the process by which our DNA provides the recipe used to direct the synthesis of prot ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 05, 2015Neuroscience
A study from Harvard Medical School researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital revea ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 04, 2015Cancer
Chemists at Bielefeld University have developed a molecule containing copper that binds specifically with DNA and preven ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 03, 2015Cancer
Scientists from Australia and the UK have completed the most comprehensive analysis yet of pancreatic cancer, in a study ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 03, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Tiny parasitic hookworms infect nearly half a billion people worldwide, almost exclusively in developing countries. Rese ...Written By: Jennifer EllisFEB 26, 2015Cardiology
Inflammation - the body's response to damaging stimuli - may have a protective effect against cardiovascular disease, ac ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeFEB 25, 2015Cancer
In greater than 90 percent of cases in which treatment for metastatic cancer fails, the reason is that the cancer is res ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderFEB 23, 2015Microbiology
The appearance of infectious diseases in new places and new hosts, such as West Nile virus and Ebola, is a predictable r ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeFEB 23, 2015Genetics & Genomics
The FDA has approved the Bloom Syndrome carrier test from 23andMe, Mountain View, Calif, a direct-to-consumer (DTC) gene ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeFEB 23, 2015Neuroscience
Crucial DNA difference between humans and chimps boosts brain size in mice.
The size of the human brain expan ...Written By: Greg CruikshankFEB 12, 2015Microbiology
New Yorkers are a hardy group. They exist in a small bubble, crowded cheek by jowl with each other and yet they still th ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimFEB 03, 2015Cancer
According to the American Cancer Society, more than 221,000 Americans will be diagnosed with lung cancer in 2015. Positi ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderDEC 29, 2014Plants & Animals
When you think of research into human conditions, most people would not consider fish to be good test subjects. They don ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimDEC 24, 2014Genetics & Genomics
Premature ovarian failure, also known as primary ovarian insufficiency (POI), affects 1 percent of all women worldwide. ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderDEC 12, 2014Cell & Molecular Biology
Scalloped and Yorkie genes found to be role players
Scientists from the University of California, Los Angele ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeDEC 02, 2014Genetics & Genomics
Two different research teams affiliated with the Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT have come up with startlingly simila ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 10, 2014Genetics & Genomics
In a pilot project, cognitive computing system will ‘learn' and digest data, with the aim of increasing treatment option ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeNOV 07, 2014Health & Medicine
One in seven couples in America experiences difficulty in conceiving a child, especially those over the age of 35. A new ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderOCT 27, 2014Cell & Molecular Biology
UC Irvine's Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center and UCLA's Eli & Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine & S ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderOCT 22, 2014Cell & Molecular Biology
How and how much living things are affected by nature vs. nurture has been an ongoing debate for many years. But, the wh ...Written By: Peter Micheli
MAR 10, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
BERKELEY -
When UC Berkeley bioengineers say they are holding their hearts in the palms of their hands, they are no ...
When UC Berkeley bioengineers say they are holding their hearts in the palms of their hands, they are no ...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 10, 2015
Immunology
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY, have designed a new type of vaccine
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 09, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Thyroid hormones have important and diverse roles in human health and regulate metabolic rate. Thyroid disease is common
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 06, 2015
Neuroscience
Researchers have for the first time successfully converted adult human skin cells into neurons of the type that regulate
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 06, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
When it comes to gene expression - the process by which our DNA provides the recipe used to direct the synthesis of prot
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 05, 2015
Neuroscience
A study from Harvard Medical School researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital revea
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 04, 2015
Cancer
Chemists at Bielefeld University have developed a molecule containing copper that binds specifically with DNA and preven
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 03, 2015
Cancer
Scientists from Australia and the UK have completed the most comprehensive analysis yet of pancreatic cancer, in a study
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 03, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Tiny parasitic hookworms infect nearly half a billion people worldwide, almost exclusively in developing countries. Rese
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
FEB 26, 2015
Cardiology
Inflammation - the body's response to damaging stimuli - may have a protective effect against cardiovascular disease, ac
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
FEB 25, 2015
Cancer
In greater than 90 percent of cases in which treatment for metastatic cancer fails, the reason is that the cancer is res
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
FEB 23, 2015
Microbiology
The appearance of infectious diseases in new places and new hosts, such as West Nile virus and Ebola, is a predictable r
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
FEB 23, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
The FDA has approved the Bloom Syndrome carrier test from 23andMe, Mountain View, Calif, a direct-to-consumer (DTC) gene
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
FEB 23, 2015
Neuroscience
Crucial DNA difference between humans and chimps boosts brain size in mice.
The size of the human brain expan ...
The size of the human brain expan ...
Written By:
Greg Cruikshank
FEB 12, 2015
Microbiology
New Yorkers are a hardy group. They exist in a small bubble, crowded cheek by jowl with each other and yet they still th
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 03, 2015
Cancer
According to the American Cancer Society, more than 221,000 Americans will be diagnosed with lung cancer in 2015. Positi
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
DEC 29, 2014
Plants & Animals
When you think of research into human conditions, most people would not consider fish to be good test subjects. They don
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 24, 2014
Genetics & Genomics
Premature ovarian failure, also known as primary ovarian insufficiency (POI), affects 1 percent of all women worldwide.
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
DEC 12, 2014
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scalloped and Yorkie genes found to be role players
Scientists from the University of California, Los Angele ...
Scientists from the University of California, Los Angele ...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
DEC 02, 2014
Genetics & Genomics
Two different research teams affiliated with the Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT have come up with startlingly simila
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 10, 2014
Genetics & Genomics
In a pilot project, cognitive computing system will ‘learn' and digest data, with the aim of increasing treatment option
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
NOV 07, 2014
Health & Medicine
One in seven couples in America experiences difficulty in conceiving a child, especially those over the age of 35. A new
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
OCT 27, 2014
Cell & Molecular Biology
UC Irvine's Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center and UCLA's Eli & Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine & S
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
OCT 22, 2014
Cell & Molecular Biology
How and how much living things are affected by nature vs. nurture has been an ongoing debate for many years. But, the wh
...
Written By:
Peter Micheli