The human body is home to a diverse range of microorganisms, estimated to outnumber human cells in a healthy adult by ten fold. The importance of characterizing human microbiota for understanding health and disease is highlighted by the recent launch of the Human Microbiome Project by the National…

Gene therapy to replace the faulty CLN2 gene, which causes a neurodegenerative disease that is fatal by age 8-12 years, was able to slow significantly the rate of neurologic decline in treated children, according to a paper published online ahead of print in the May 2008 issue (Vol. 19 No. 5) of Hum…

The genome of a newly emerging superbug, commonly known as Steno, reveals an organism with a remarkable capacity for drug resistance

The genome of a newly-emerging superbug, commonly known as Steno, has just been sequenced. The results reveal an organism with a remarkable capacity for drug resist…

Patients’ vision improved from detecting hand movements to reading lines on eye chart
In a clinical trial at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, researchers from The University of Pennsylvania have used gene therapy to safely restore vision in three young adults with a rare form of congenita…

RNA interference (RNAi) represents an innovative new strategy for using small RNA molecules to silence specific genes associated with disease processes, and a series of review articles describing the state-of-the-art and potential therapeutic applications of RNAi and microRNAs will begin with two re…

Pbx-1, Prep-1 Help Spur IL-10 Production; Findings Have Implications for Research into Lupus, Cancer and HIV/AIDS

NEW YORK (Dec. 28, 2007) — A research team at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City has identified two genes that may be crucial to the production of an immune system cytoki…

New research supports advice to eat complex carbs and avoid sugar
(Vancouver – November 8, 2007) – Eating too much fructose and glucose can turn off
the gene that regulates the levels of active testosterone and estrogen in the body, shows a
new study in mice and human cell cultures that’s p…

Technique Opens New Horizons For Scientists Seeking Disease-Related Genes

Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have developed a new means of extracting and interpreting data from the human genome that is more powerful and more economical than methods curren…

Highlights avenue for new antibiotic discovery

WALNUT CREEK, CA— It is better to be looked over than overlooked, Mae West supposedly said. These are words of wisdom for genome data-miners of today. Data that goes unnoticed, despite its widespread availability, can reveal extraordinary insights …

Genetic variation implicated in Pima obesity

New evidence that genetics plays a key role in obesity is published today in the International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications. The findings relate to the genetics of modern Pima Indians who have an unusually high rate of obesity bu…