| Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:49:47 GMT
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| HealthDay - SUNDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have discovered genetic
variants that are associated with biological aging, a finding that could
explain why some people seem to age faster than others.
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| Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:49:29 GMT
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| HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists say they've
developed a new and easier way to create what's known as pluripotent stem
cells -- cells that can develop into one of many cell types for use in
regenerative medicine.
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| Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:12:29 GMT
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| AP - An instructor at a public community college in Fresno has been presenting his religious views on homosexuality, abortion and global warming as fact to students in an introductory health science class, the American Civil Liberties Union alleged Monday.
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| Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:49:17 GMT
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| HealthDay - FRIDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have completed a
map of areas of the human genome that control which genes are switched on
or off in type 2 diabetes, a finding that may advance understanding of
the genetic basis of this and other common diseases.
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| Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:34:42 GMT
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| Reuters - The risk of a potentially fatal brain disorder with Biogen Idec Inc's multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri increases as patients receive more infusions, U.S. health officials warned on Friday.
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| Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:49:50 GMT
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| HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say they've discovered
genetic traits in mothers and fetuses that appear to boost the risk of
premature labor and delivery.
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| Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:40:17 GMT
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| LiveScience.com - When you put in hours at the gym, you expect to get fitter. It turns out, that assumption doesn't hold true for everyone. A new study suggests specific genes may determine, at least in part, how much we really benefit from exercise.
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| Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:04:56 GMT
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| Reuters - Genes in the mother and the fetus play a role in the risk of preterm labor, a leading cause of infant death and disability, U.S. government researchers said on Thursday.
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| Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:49:52 GMT
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| HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Adding more evidence to
theories linking DNA to weight, European scientists report that a genetic
variation seems to virtually guarantee that a person will become
obese.
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| Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:43:30 GMT
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|  AFP - Debate over the obesity epidemic sweeping parts of the world has focussed on whether lifestyle -- too much junk food and couch-potato living -- is the big culprit or whether genes are also to blame.
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| Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:48:49 GMT
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| HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Long-term survival rates are similar
for leukemia patients who've had either peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC)
or bone marrow transplants, a new European study says.
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| Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:48:34 GMT
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| HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers are reporting that
a gene mutation in a pregnant mouse leads to changes inside the uterus
that cause premature birth and, in some cases, death of the fetus.
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| Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:01:32 GMT
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| Reuters - Leukemia patients who have blood stem cell transplants survive just as long on average as those who undergo the more invasive procedure of having a bone marrow transplant, scientists said on Monday.
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| Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:49:15 GMT
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| HealthDay - FRIDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- The first complete genomic
sequencing of a brain cancer cell line has been performed by U.S.
scientists.
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| Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:07:48 GMT
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| Reuters - Swiss biotechnology group Basilea said it would resume recruitment of patients into a late-stage trial of an antifungal treatment in the first half of 2010 after a U.S. safety panel recommended the study's continuation.
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| Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:48:53 GMT
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| HealthDay - MONDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have identified
four regions of the human genome that predict a heightened risk of
pancreatic cancer as a result of what they describe as the biggest-ever
sweep of the genome for genes related to the disease.
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| Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:48:51 GMT
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| HealthDay - MONDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDay News) Researchers say they've spotted a new
genetic risk factor for Parkinson's disease, as well as a link between the
illness and two other factors, metabolism and vitamin B6.
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| Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:50:08 GMT
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| HealthDay - THURSDAY, Jan. 21 (HealthDay News) -- New technology has made it
possible, for the first time, to track the potentially deadly bacteria
MRSA around the world or from one person to another, a new study
reports.
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| Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:20:00 GMT
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| Time.com - Recurrent migraine headaches are enough to drive a person into depression, but new research suggests that the link between the two conditions is even more basic: genes
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| Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:14:39 GMT
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|  AFP - Hundreds of scientists sifting through genetic data from 122,000 people have quintupled the number of gene variants known to boost the risk of diabetes, a pair of studies released Sunday reported.
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