“Hyperactivity and academic achievement could be linked by genetics” 
(May 17) EurekAlert! reports, “Children who are hyperactive tend to do worse academically than their peers who are not hyperactive.”
“Newly identified mechanism for silencing genes points to possible anti-cancer strategies”
(May 16) EurekAlert! reports, “Genes provide the instructions used by the individual cells to produce the many different proteins that make up the body.”
“Nutrition and heredity are genetically linked”
May 16) EurekAlert! reports, “A challenging goal in biology is to understand how the principal cellular functions are integrated so that cells achieve viability and optimal fitness under a wide range of nutritional conditions.”
“Polyplus-transfection obtains an AFM grant for the development of its gene/drug delivery tool for clinical applications”
(May 16) Medical News Today reports, “Polyplus-transfection, a company specializing in research, development and marketing of innovative reagents for drug delivery, gene therapy and transfection, announces today that it has obtained a EUR 80,000 grant from AFM (Association Française contre les Myopathies), France's Muscular Dystrophy Association.”
“Genetic abnormalities associated with esophageal cancer eliminated after treatment with HALO ablation system”
(May 15) lifesciencesworld.com reports, “HALO Ablation System cures 96% of patients with dangerous esophagus condition.”
“Loss of gene involved in clot formation may explain bleeding disorder, LAD-III”
(May 14) Medical News Today reports, “Patients with the syndrome leukocyte adhesion deficiency (LAD) III suffer from recurrent infections and an increased tendency to bleed.”
“Team unearths genetic risk factors for diabetes”
(May 14) Physorg.com reports, “Scientists have discovered three unsuspected regions of human DNA that contain clear genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes, and another that is associated with elevated blood triglycerides.”
“The DNA diet”
(May 13) Times Online reports, “New evidence linking obesity to genetics means clinics are now offering tailor-made plans. But are they just another dieting gimmick, asks Sally Brown.”
“Identification of 200 new proteins that interact with the mutated protein that causes Huntington's disease”
(May 13) News-Medical.Net reports, “The identification of more than 200 new proteins that interact with the mutated protein that causes Huntington's disease opens the door to developing treatments for the fatal neurodegenerative disorder, said a Baylor College of Medicine researcher who took part in the work that appears online today in the journal Public Library of Science Genetics.”
“Researchers identify human genes targeted by a virus believed to cause Kaposi's sarcoma”
(May 13) News-Medical.Net reports, “University of Florida researchers have identified specific human genes targeted by a virus believed to cause Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare form of cancer associated with AIDS and with organ transplants that causes patches of red or purple tissue to grow under people's skin.”
“Genetic risk factors for eating disorders discovered”
(May 12) Science Daily reports, “Until recently, it was generally believed that eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa resulted solely from environmental influences such as peer pressure and certain perceived expectations of society.”
“Genetic tests may help improve patients' response to tuberculosis medication”
(May 12) Medical News Today reports, “Experts have today highlighted the role that genetics may play in treating the current global tuberculosis (TB) pandemic.”
“Inherited genes linked to toxicity of leukemia therapy”
(May 12) Medical News Today reports, “Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered inherited variations in certain genes that make children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) susceptible to the toxic side effects caused by chemotherapy medications.”
”Gene advances bring ethical quandaries”
(May 11) Boston Globe reports, “A revolution in genetics is leading to almost weekly discoveries about genes linked with diseases such as diabetes, but also creating a dilemma for medical scientists: Should they tell the patients whose DNA was used in the research that they may be at risk for a serious illness?”
“Genetic component to autism”
(May 10) News-Medical.Net reports, “Using an innovative statistical approach, a research team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of California, Los Angeles, has identified two regions of DNA linked to autism.”
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