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Researchers: More Regulatory DNA, And Less Junk, Than Previously Believed

Surrounding the small islands of genes within the human genome is a vast sea of non-coding DNA. While most of this DNA is junk, some of it is used to help genes turn on and off. Hopkins researchers write in Genome Research that they have now found ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2007 - 6:57pm - 0 attachments

PET Scans: Gene Therapy Normalizes Brain Function In Parkinson's Patients

... can be a valuable marker in testing novel therapies for Parkinson's disease,” he said. The gene therapy technique was developed ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2007 - 5:58pm - 0 attachments

United Nations Report: Ban Cloning Or It Will Happen

A UN eport says a ban on human reproductive cloning, coupled with restricted therapeutic research, is the global compromise on this ethical dilemma most likely to succeed. According to authors of a new policy analysis by the United Nations Universit ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2007 - 1:56am - 0 attachments

What Singing And Testosterone In Sparrows Can Teach Us About Parkinson's Disease

A remarkable change takes place in the brains of tiny songbirds every year, and some day the mechanism controlling that change may help researchers develop treatments for age-related degenerative diseases of the brain such as Parkinson’s and dementia. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2007 - 12:37pm - 0 attachments

HtrA2 And PINK1 Could Protect Against Parkinson’s Disease

The discovery of a relationship between two cell enzymes and their role in keeping the cell’s energy generating machinery working smoothly could provide a new target for development of therapies for Parkinson’s disease (PD). Research led by Dr L.Mi ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2007 - 1:10am - 0 attachments

Spermatogonial Progenitor Stem Cells (SPCs) May Eliminate Need For Embryonic Ones

... organs in patients with heart disease, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, macular degeneration and infertility ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2007 - 6:42pm - 0 attachments

Aspartame Is Safe, Study Says

A sweeping review of research studies of aspartame says there is no evidence that the non-nutritive sweetener causes cancer, neurological damage or other health problems in humans Looking at more than 500 reports, including toxicological, clinical a ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2007 - 11:03am - 0 attachments

The Fenton Reaction, Bad Iron And Alzheimer's

... says the key to battling neurological diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases may lie in binding up iron and then ... stress in brain cells that has been associated with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's as well as other age-related maladies such as ... Chemical Society. The work is being supported by the Parkinson's Disease Foundation and Duke University. Franz's Aug. 23 talk at ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 23 2007 - 11:10am - 0 attachments

Huntingtin Protein, Kinases And The Search For The Origin Of Huntington Disease

Huntington disease (HD) is a neurological disorder resulting from degeneration of brain cells. The degeneration causes uncontrolled limb movements and loss of intellectual faculties, eventually leading to death. There is no treatment. HD is a familial d ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2007 - 10:04pm - 0 attachments

Deep Into The Machinery Of Adult Fragile X

Researchers have reported new insight into the pathology underlying a recently identified neurological disorder that strikes middle-aged adults that is caused by alterations in the same gene that causes fragile X syndrome. “Fragile X tremor/ataxia syndr ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2007 - 11:42am - 0 attachments