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Wanted: Biologists who can speak 'math,' engineers fluent in genetics
11-22-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Biologists, computer scientists and engineers speak different languages. This communications divide is becoming more of a problem now that research so often requires collaboration across disciplines.
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- Wanted: Biologists who can speak 'math'
11-22-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Biologists, computer scientists and engineers speak different languages. This communications divide is becoming more of a problem now that research so often requires collaboration across disciplines.
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- Hyperactivity and academic achievement could be linked by genetics
05-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
New research shows that the existence of overactivity, impulsivity and inattentiveness in children who also exhibit poor achievement in math, reading, and language may be due to shared genetic influences. The research was based on 2,000 7-year-old pairs of twins that are part of the UK-based "Twins Early Development Study." The existence of substantial overlap between hyperactivity and achievement has important implications for future research about genes associated with both behaviors.
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10-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
That clover necklace you make for your child could well be a ring of poison. That's because some clovers have evolved genes that help the plant produce cyanide - to protect itself against little herbivores, such as snails, slugs and voles, that eat clover. Other clover plants that do not make cyanide are found in climates with colder temperatures. Kenneth Olsen, Ph.D., Washington University biologist is looking at the genetics behind this polymorphism.
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- Computer program traces ancestry using anonymous DNA samples
09-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
A group of computer scientists, mathematicians, and biologists from around the world have developed a computer algorithm that can help trace the genetic ancestry of thousands of individuals in minutes, without any prior knowledge of their background. The team's findings will be published in the September 2007 edition of the journal PLoS Genetics.
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- Scientists identify gene that may indicate predisposition to schizophrenia
01-24-2007 · EurekAlert!
In a study from the January issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, a research team lead by Xinzhi Zhao and Ruqi Tang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) present evidence that genetic variation may indicate predisposition to schizophrenia. Specifically, their findings identify the chitinase 3-like 1 gene as a potential schizophrenia-susceptibility gene and suggest that the genes involved in biological response to adverse conditions are likely linked to schizophrenia.
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- Support for chromosomal theory of cancer found in cancers' development of drug resistance
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Most cancer researchers are convinced that cancer results from a handful of genetic mutations that kick a cell into uncontrolled growth. UC Berkeley genetics researcher Peter Duesberg disagrees, and finds support for his "chromosomal" theory of cancer in the development of drug resistance by many cancers. While his theory implies their is no magic bullet against cancer, it does provide ways to detect cancer at an early stage.
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- Stanford Q&A: Largest-ever study shows possible genetic links for autism
02-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
On Feb. 18, Nature Genetics will publish the largest-ever study on the genetics of autism. The research is the fruit of an international autism genetics consortium, called the Autism Genome Project.
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- Human genetic 'deserts' are teeming with significant life
06-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
Many of the areas of the human genome previously thought to be deserts are in fact teeming with life, a scientist will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics. Most known human genes in the genome map are still incompletely annotated, says Professor Alexandre Reymond, from the Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Department of Genetic Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
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- Bear hunting altered genetics more than Ice Age isolation
11-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
It was not the isolation of the Ice Age that determined the genetic distribution of bears, as has long been thought. This is shown by an international research team led from Uppsala University in Sweden in the latest issue of Molecular Ecology. One possible interpretation is that the hunting of bears by humans and human land use have been crucial factors.
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- Researchers move 2 steps closer to understanding genetic underpinnings of autism
01-10-2008 · EurekAlert!
Today's issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, describes what might be a corner piece of the autism puzzle -- the identification and subsequent validation of a gene linked to the development of autism by three separate groups of scientists. An accompanying commentary by Dr. Dietrich Stephan, Director of the Neurogenomics Division at the Translational Genomics Research Institute, further explains the findings.
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