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Summer heroes still find time to save the world
Published July 4, 2009, 3:18 pm, Los Angeles Times
Despite complexities. "It's not my war," says Shia LaBeouf's Sam in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." "I fear it soon will be," replies the heavy-hearted towering steel of Optimus Prime. And we know, in that moment, that despite his wish to be just an ordinary guy, Sam will become the reluctant warrior. For us, sacrifices will be made. The world will be made safe. We will be saved.
Double Success For Instituto Gulbenkian De Ciencia Scientists Working On Chromosome Segregation
Published July 4, 2009, 5:08 am, Medical News Today
Lars Jansen's work on the formation of the centromere, a key cellular structure in powering and controlling chromosome segregation and accurate cell division, has just earned him a paper in Nature Cell Biology and a prestigious EMBO installation grant, of 50,000 euro per year, for a maximum of five years.
Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder share genetic roots
Published July 4, 2009, 3:31 am, New Kerala
Washington, July 4 : Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder share genetic roots that seem to be specific to serious mental disorders, new studies have revealed.
Schizophrenia And Bipolar Disorder Share Genetic Roots
Published July 4, 2009, 3:07 am, Medical News Today
A trio of genome-wide studies - collectively the largest to date - has pinpointed a vast array of genetic variation that cumulatively may account for at least one third of the genetic risk for schizophrenia. One of the studies traced schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, in part, to the same chromosomal neighborhoods.
157-mile bike ride to ‘give back’
Published July 3, 2009, 10:29 pm, Douglas County News-Press
As a former pediatric physical therapist at The Children’s Hospital, Nanci Ricks worked with many special needs children.
Genetic Link For Perfect Pitch?
Published July 3, 2009, 1:36 pm, Scientific American
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] We might think perfect pitch is an innate talent. Well, a study in the American Journal of Human Genetics is providing some evidence for that. [More]
Perfect Pitch Research Offers Window Into Influences Of Nature And Nurture
Published July 3, 2009, 9:40 am, redOrbit
Practice, practice, practice might get you to Carnegie Hall, but for aspiring musicians, there's new evidence that genes may influence one's ability to get there, as well.Perfect pitch, also known as absolute pitch, is the rare ability to recognize and name musical notes without any reference pitch for comparison, detecting, for instance, A before middle C.
Study Led By Stanford Scientists Links Schizophrenia To Chromosome Region For The First Time
Published July 3, 2009, 4:08 am, Medical News Today
Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have played a major role in an international effort that has shown, for the first time, that modern genetic technologies can solve the riddle of how gene variations lead to schizophrenia.
New Connection Between Cancer Cells, Stem Cells Pinpointed By Stanford Discovery
Published July 3, 2009, 4:08 am, Medical News Today
A molecule called telomerase, best known for enabling unlimited cell division of stem cells and cancer cells, has a surprising additional role in the expression of genes in an important stem cell regulatory pathway, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Genetic region linked with rare ability to recognize, name musical notes identified
Published July 3, 2009, 1:03 am, New Kerala
Washington, July 3 : Scientists at the University of California-San Francisco (UNSF) say that they have identified a particular region of genes on human chromosome eight that is linked to perfect pitch, the rare ability to recognize and name musical notes without any reference pitch for comparison, at least in people of European ancestry.
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