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Researchers Create Map of Shortcuts Between All Human Genes
Researchers have generated the full set of distances, routes and degrees of separation between any two human genes, creating a map of gene “shortcuts” that aims to simplify the hunt for disease-causing genes in monogenic diseases. |
Embargo expired: 3/18/2013 3:00 PM EDT
Released: 3/18/2013 3:10 PM EDT
Rockefeller University |
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Drug Treatment Corrects Autism Symptoms in Mouse ModelAutism results from abnormal cell communication. Testing a new theory, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have used a newly discovered function of an old drug to restore cell communications in a mouse model of autism, reversing symptoms of the devastating disorder. |
Embargo expired: 3/13/2013 5:00 PM EDT
Released: 3/12/2013 12:00 PM EDT
University of California, San Diego Health Sciences |
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New Drug Shows Promise in Fighting Inflammatory Breast Cancer
Researchers in the University of Delaware's Department of Biological Sciences are investigating a new drug that has shown positive results in early tests of its ability to fight a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer. |
Released: 3/7/2013 4:50 PM EST
University of Delaware |
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Business Professors Take on a Key Technology: Cloud ComputingExperts from several disciplines to consider how business can best manage and take advantage of the opportunities stemming from this unprecedented growth in information resources. The relatively straightforward solution to the problem, is cloud computing. |
Released: 3/7/2013 4:20 PM EST
University of Baltimore, Merrick School of Business |
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Weight Loss Surgery BasicsJersey Shore University Medical Center’s Dr. Seth Kipnis educates the community about the benefits of weight-loss surgery options, including the LAP-BAND® System and Sleeve Gastrectomy. |
Released: 3/7/2013 1:00 PM EST
Meridian Health |
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Tip Sheet: U.Va. Experts Weigh In on Sequestration from Policy, Education and Business StandpointsUnless Congress acts by this Friday, “a series of automatic cuts – called the sequester – will take effect that threaten hundreds of thousands of middle-class jobs, and cut vital services for children, seniors, people with mental illness and our men and women in uniform,” according to a White House report issued Sunday. Many Republican lawmakers, on the other hand, say President Obama and the Democrats are overstating the likely impact of the sequester. |
Released: 2/27/2013 1:45 PM EST
Expert Available University of Virginia |
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Popular Video Dancing Game May Reduce Cognitive, Physical Impacts of Multiple SclerosisResearchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center are testing Dance Dance Revolution’s ability to help MS patients. |
Released: 2/27/2013 8:30 AM EST
Ohio State University Center for Clinical and Translational Science |
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Fighting Cancer with Your Fork....and iPhone
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has launched a free, easy-to-use iPhone® app that provides recipes and nutrition information that can be searched by cancer patients in accordance with their needs. The recipes are also helpful to anyone who wants to have a healthy diet. |
Released: 2/25/2013 1:00 PM EST
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
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Solar Energy to Get Boost From Cutting-Edge ForecastsApplying its atmospheric expertise to solar energy, NCAR is spearheading a three-year, nationwide project to create unprecedented, 36-hour forecasts of incoming energy from the Sun. The prototype system will forecast sunlight every 15 minutes over specific solar facilities, thereby enabling utilities to continuously anticipate the amount of available solar energy. |
Released: 2/21/2013 1:00 PM EST
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) |
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Circadian Clock Linked to Obesity, Diabetes and Heart Attacks
Disruption in the body’s circadian rhythm can lead not only to obesity, but can also increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease. That is the conclusion of the first study to show definitively that insulin activity is controlled by the body’s circadian biological clock. |
Embargo expired: 2/21/2013 12:00 AM EST
Released: 2/21/2013 8:00 AM EST
Vanderbilt University |