Category Archives: Gene Medicine

Gene trawl shows clues, but also complexity, in autism

Researchers said on Wednesday they had found three more genes implicated in autism and turned up some evidence to explain why the disorder occurs more frequently among children of older parents.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=gene+medicine&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt

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Personal Gene Mapping Has Limits, Study Says

MONDAY, April 2 (HealthDay News) — Many people have pinned their hopes on human genome scans as the cornerstone of the rapidly emerging field of personalized medicine, able to predict the future health of individuals.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=gene+medicine&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt

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Scientists Link Rare Gene Mutations to Heightened Risk of Autism

Scientists have for the first time identified several gene mutations that they say sharply increase the chances of autism, and have found that the risk increases with the age of the parents, particularly the father.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=gene+medicine&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt

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Gene Mapping for Healthy People No 'Crystal Ball'

Title: Gene Mapping for Healthy People No 'Crystal Ball' Category: Health News Created: 4/3/2012 11:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 4/3/2012 12:00:00 AMSource:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=gene+medicine&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt

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Gene mutations, parents' age found to raise risk of autism

Scientists working independently have for the first time identified gene mutations that they agree sharply increase the chances that a child will develop autism.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=gene+medicine&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt

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Gene studies begin to unravel autism puzzle

CHICAGO, April 7 — A sweeping study of hundreds of families with autism has found that spontaneous mutations can occur in a parent’s sperm or egg cells that increase a child’s risk for autism, and fathers are four times more … Continue reading

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Study finds protective gene in fat cells

Public release date: 1-Apr-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Bonnie Prescott bprescot@bidmc.harvard.edu 617-667-7306 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON — In a finding that may challenge popular notions of body fat and health, researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have shown how fat cells can protect the body against diabetes. The results may lead to a new therapeutic strategy for preventing and treating type 2 diabetes and obesity-related metabolic diseases, the authors say. In the last decade, several research groups have shown that fat cells in people play a major role in controlling healthy blood sugar and insulin levels throughout the body. Continue reading

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Gene variations linked to intestinal blockage in newborns with cystic fibrosis

ScienceDaily (Apr. 1, 2012) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers working as part of the International Cystic Fibrosis Consortium have discovered several regions of the genome that may predispose cystic fibrosis (CF) patients to develop an intestinal blockage while still in the uterus Continue reading

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Rice, IBM partner to build Texas’ first Blue Gene supercomputer

Rice University and IBM today have announced a partnership to build the first award-winning IBM Blue Gene supercomputer in Texas. Rice also announced a related collaboration agreement with the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil to initiate the shared administration and use of the Blue Gene supercomputer, which allows both institutions to share the benefits of the new computing resource. Rice faculty will use the Blue Gene to further their own research and to collaborate with academic and industry partners on a broad range of science and engineering questions related to energy, geophysics, basic life sciences, cancer research, personalized medicine and more Continue reading

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Mayo v. Prometheus and Its Impact on Myriad "Gene Patenting" Case—Antoinette Konski – Video


29-03-2012 12:24 More LXBN TV interviews at: While talk this week of course focuses on the oral arguments in the Affordable Care Act case, the Supreme Court last week ruled in a very important and influential intellectual property case. In Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., the court ruled that the patent Prometheus had obtained for correlations between blood test results and patient health is not eligible for a patent because it incorporates laws of nature. Continue reading

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Transgenomic, Inc. Announces Presentation of Results from 448-Gene NuclearMitome Test in 78 Patients at the 2012 …

OMAHA, Neb.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Transgenomic, Inc. (OTCBB: TBIO.OB – News) today announced that Jeana DaRe, Ph.D., Assistant CLIA Laboratory Director at Transgenomic, presented clinical findings from patients tested for nuclear mitochondrial disorders using Transgenomics NuclearMitome Test on Thursday, March 29, at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) in Charlotte, North Carolina Continue reading

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IBM Inks Blue Gene Supercomputer Deals With Rice and Rutgers Universities

IBM Inks Blue Gene Supercomputer Deals With Rice, Rutgers Universities ( Page 1 of 3 ) IBM has had a busy week with academia, announcing partnerships with both Rice University and Rutgers University to advance supercomputing at their institutions and in their home states of Texas and New Jersey, respectively. On March 30, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Rice University announced a partnership to build the first IBM Blue Gene supercomputer in Texas Continue reading

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Rice University, IBM Partner to Bring First Blue Gene Supercomputer to Texas

HOUSTON, March 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –Rice University and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a partnership to build the first award-winning IBM Blue Gene supercomputer in Texas. Continue reading

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First Bedside Gene Test Shows Promise

THURSDAY, March 29 (HealthDay News) — For the first time, a genetic test done at a patient’s bedside helped doctors choose the right medicine, Canadian researchers report. The test, which can be done by nurses and others, was able to identify patients in whom the blood thinner Plavix might be ineffective, putting the patients at risk for heart attacks or strokes. “One of the shortcomings we have in medicine right now is that there isn’t a quick and effective way of identifying these genetic variants,” said lead researcher Dr Continue reading

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Gene genie out of the bottle

Worried about cybertheft? Thats so 20th century. Tonights NOVA (8 p.m., PBS) explores a brave new world thats now upon us: the era of the genetic code and the powerful and potentially dangerous information it can reveal. Continue reading

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New gene transfer technique can treat beta-thalassemia, sickle cell anemia

A team of researchers led by scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College has designed what appears to be a powerful gene therapy strategy that can treat both beta-thalassemia disease and sickle cell anemia. They have also developed a test to predict patient response before treatment. This study’s findings, published in PLoS ONE, represents a new approach to treating these related, and serious, red blood cells disorders, say the investigators. Continue reading

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Innovaro Announces Completion of Licensing Agreement between Inven2 and Oxford Gene Technology

TAMPA, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Innovaro, Inc (NYSE Amex: INV), The Innovation Solutions Company, is pleased to announce that its client Inven2, the technology transfer office at Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo, has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Oxford Gene Technology (OGT) for 12 highly promising colorectal cancer tissue biomarkers through Innovaros Pharmalicensing Partnering Search & Profiling division. Continue reading

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Single Gene Could Play Role in Obesity

(Ivanhoe Newswire)– A ravenous appetite may be what causes many overweight people to be obese. Researchers have found a mutation in a single gene is responsible for the inability of neurons to effectively send out appetite suppressing signals from the body to the correct area of the brain. A study suggests that there might be a way to stimulate expression of that gene to treat obesity caused by uncontrolled eating Continue reading

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Gene responsible for fatty liver disease in obese kids identified

Washington, March 27 (ANI): Researchers have found that obese youths with particular genetic variants may be more prone to fatty liver disease, a leading cause of chronic liver disease in children and adolescents in industrialized countries. Continue reading

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New gene therapy approach developed for red blood cell disorders

Public release date: 27-Mar-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Richard Pietzak riz2008@med.cornell.edu 212-821-0560 New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College NEW YORK (March 27, 2012) — A team of researchers led by scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College has designed what appears to be a powerful gene therapy strategy that can treat both beta-thalassemia disease and sickle cell anemia. They have also developed a test to predict patient response before treatment. Continue reading

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