Neuroscience
Nanomix, Inc. have developed nanotubes that detect genetic mutations in DNA. Pitt researchers created carbon nanotubes that detected a mutation in the gene that causes hereditary hemochromatosis, a disease in which too much iron accumulates in body tissues.
"The applications of our method for detection of other, more serious genetic diseases can be seen," said Alexander Star.
The method is faster, cheaper, more portable and produces better results than traditional optics.
Read more.
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From a National Institutes of Health (NIH) press release on the 26th: Scientists Suggest New Pathway Causing Cell Death in Dementia Scientists have discovered a link between a mutated gene and a protein found in dead brain cells of people who suffer...
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- Abstract Of The Day: Speech And Language
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Neuroscience
DNA nanotechnology
Nanomix, Inc. have developed nanotubes that detect genetic mutations in DNA. Pitt researchers created carbon nanotubes that detected a mutation in the gene that causes hereditary hemochromatosis, a disease in which too much iron accumulates in body tissues.
"The applications of our method for detection of other, more serious genetic diseases can be seen," said Alexander Star.
The method is faster, cheaper, more portable and produces better results than traditional optics.
Read more.
- Neuropsychology Abstract Of The Day: Alzheimer Drug Development
Today's recommended article to read; abstract from PubMed: Bergmans BA & De Strooper B. gamma-secretases: From cell biology to therapeutic strategies. Lancet Neurology. 2010 Feb; 9(2 ): 215-226. Department of Molecular and Developmental Genetics,...
- Neurodegenerative Diseases: Progranulin (pgrn) Mutation And Tdp-43
From a National Institutes of Health (NIH) press release on the 26th: Scientists Suggest New Pathway Causing Cell Death in Dementia Scientists have discovered a link between a mutated gene and a protein found in dead brain cells of people who suffer...
- P16-ink4a
From The New York Times: Gene Found to Switch Off Stem Cells During Aging By NICHOLAS WADE Published: September 6, 2006 Biologists have uncovered a deep link between lifespan and cancer in the form of a gene that switches off stem cells as a person ages....
- Potassium Channel Regulation Abnormalities In Neurodegeneration
From an NIH press release: Study Implicates Potassium Channel Mutations in Neurodegeneration and Mental Retardation For the first time, researchers have linked mutations in a gene that regulates how potassium enters cells to a neurodegenerative disease...
- Abstract Of The Day: Speech And Language
Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, David G. Gadian, Andrew Copp & Mortimer Mishkin (2005). FOXP2 AND THE NEUROANATOMY OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 6, 131-138. [doi:10.1038/nrn1605] That speech and language are innate capacities of...