"Scientists Debunk So-Called 'Fat Gene'" 
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(Jan 18) abc News reports, “Just as death and taxes are inevitable, some people assume they're also fated to be fat.”
“Fact Sheet: A New Era in Cancer Prevention”
(Jan 17) The White House reports, “Today, The President Visited The National Institutes Of Health (NIH), Toured A Cancer Research Lab, And Participated In A Roundtable Discussion On Advances In The Fight Against Cancer.”
“Scientists Map Gene Regulators”
(Jan 17) Red Orbit reports, “U.S. researchers said Tuesday they have mapped key points in the human genome which may lead to therapies for cancer and other diseases. “
“Bethesda List Center Announces a New Mailing List: Human Genetics Worldwide”
(Jan 17) PR Web reports, “Bethesda List Center, Inc. today introduced a new mailing list; Human Genetics Worldwide.”
“Key finding in rare muscle disease”
(Jan 17) EurekAlert! reports, “The finding is in the current issue of Annals of Neurology, a leading international neurology journal, in work led by Professor Nigel Laing and Dr Kristen Nowak of the Laboratory for Molecular Genetics at the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR) and done in collaboration with a number of European researchers.”
“Researchers find a common genetic risk factor for Parkinson's disease in Asians”
(Jan 16) Mayo Clinic reports, “Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla. and the National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan have discovered what to date appears to be the most common genetic risk factor for Parkinson's disease worldwide.”
“Macular degeneration has a strong genetic link”
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(Jan 16) Reuters Health via
medicineOnline.com reports, “A new study has fount that a specific form of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene, called E2, increases the risk of age-related macular degeneration well beyond the age of 65, whereas another form of APOE called E4, may confer some protection.”
“Nanoparticles yield delivery tools for therapeutic nucleic acids”
(Jan 16) News-Medical.Net reports, “Cancer researchers hold great hope that nucleic acid-based therapeutics, such as anticancer genes, antisense oligonucleotides, and small interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules, will prove to be powerful antitumor agents.”
“Creating GENETIC MEDICINE”
(Jan 16) The Washington Times reports, “Personalized medicine, the tailored treatments that a few patients now get based on their own DNA, is finally headed for the masses: the many heart patients at risk of deadly blood clots.”
“Early treatment of autism hinges on genetic discoveries”
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(Jan 16) The Columbus Dispatch reports, “Autism is a complex disorder of social, communicative and behavioral development that usually starts in children before 3 years of age. “
“Midstate briefs: Genetic mutations may cause SIDS”
(Jan 16) Tennessean.com reports, “Sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, may be caused by genetic mutations that could lead to fatal arrhythmias, or irregular heart rhythms, in some children, according to two newly published studies involving several Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers in the online edition of the journal Circulation.”
“shRNAs Targeting Tumor Suppressor Genes”
(Jan 15) Genetic Engineering News reports, “RNAi methodologies have been utilized in small- to large-scale screening projects.”
“Scientists find potential 'off-switch' for HIV virus”
(Jan 12) EurekAlert! reports, “While there is no cure for lingering viral infections such as HIV and herpes, a recent study at Princeton University suggests it may be possible to deactivate such viruses indefinitely with the flick of a genetic switch. “
“Novel regulation of the common tumor suppressor PTEN”
(Jan 12) EurekAlert! reports, “PTEN is one of the most commonly mutated tumor suppressor genes. It is an antagonist for many cellular growth, proliferation and survival processes.”
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