Word: genes
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...screen of over 500,000 gene markers turned up five genes with strong associations with the onset of Alzheimer’s. Only one of those, the protein APOE, had been associated with the disease before...
...team—led by scientists at the Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital—identified four new genes linked to the degenerative neural disease. Only one other gene had been previously associated with the illness...
...there might be a glimmer of hope in the case. If the transplant does prove to have been a success and can be replicated, researchers say gene therapists might one day be able to re-engineer a patient's cells to change their bone marrow the same way a transplant does, except without the dangers. Such a breakthrough, if it proves possible, would be "decades rather than years away," according to Ade Fakoya, a London-based clinician and senior adviser to the nonprofit Aids Alliance. The treatment would also likely prove too expensive to implement in developing countries where...
...behind a bronze plaque. Stanley Dunham was an Army sergeant in World War II; he died of prostate cancer in 1992. Officials at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific have since been contacted by Borthwick Mortuary about holding a service for Madelyn Dunham, says Gene Castagnetti, the cemetery's director. Stanley Dunham's niche is large enough to hold another urn. If the family decides on that arrangement, Sergeant Dunham's bronze plaque covering the niche would be removed and replaced with another that would include his wife's name, birthday and date of death...
...study found that a hormone called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) activates the cells’ replication. Receptors on the outskirts of the endothelial cells normally bind with VEGF and restrict its activation. The team found that two gene mutations are likely responsible for missing receptors...