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Part eight: Climate scientists contradicted spirit of openness by rejecting information requests
Published February 9, 2010, 9:49 am, Guardian Unlimited
Hacked emails reveal systematic attempts to block requests from sceptics — and deep frustration at anti-global warming agenda In a unique experiment, The Guardian has published online the full manuscript of its major investigation into the climate science emails stolen from the University of East Anglia, which revealed apparent attempts to cover up flawed data; moves to prevent access to climate ...
Journal Of Clinical Investigation Online News Feb. 8, 2010
Published February 9, 2010, 7:18 am, Medical News Today
NEPHROLOGY: New approach to treating the kidney disease Alport syndrome? Alport syndrome is a progressive hereditary kidney disease with no definitive therapy. It is caused by mutations in any of the collagen IV genes (COL4A3, COL4A4, and COL4A5). Motoko Yanagita and colleagues, at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, have now identified a role for the protein USAG-1 in the ...
JCI online early table of contents: Feb. 8, 2010
Published February 8, 2010, 2:28 pm, EurekAlert!
( Journal of Clinical Investigation ) This release contains summaries, links to PDFs, and contact information for the following newsworthy papers to be published online, Feb. 8, 2010, in the JCI: Marker of Ewing sarcoma: potential new drug target?; Enhancing arrest of cell growth to treat cancer in mice; New approach to treating the kidney disease Alport syndrome?; Role for the protein HIF-2 ...
The Loss Of Certain Genes Increases The Risk Of Becoming Overweight By 50 Times
Published February 5, 2010, 6:38 am, Medical News Today
A new cause of obesity due to a defect on chromosome 16 has just been discovered. It is thought to explain close to 1% of obesity cases. For carriers of the defect, the risk of becoming overweight is 50 times higher. This research is the result of close cooperation between the team of Professor Froguel (1), a CNRS researcher, in Lille, and colleagues at Imperial College in London and Vaudois ...
Some Morbidly Obese People Are Missing Genes, Shows New Research
Published February 4, 2010, 5:49 am, Medical News Today
A small but significant proportion of morbidly obese people are missing a section of their DNA, according to research published in Nature. The authors of the study, from Imperial College London and ten other European Centres, say that missing DNA such as that identified in this research may be having a dramatic effect on some people's weight. According to the new findings, around seven in every ...
Climate scientists shut out sceptics
Published February 4, 2010, 3:56 am, Guardian Unlimited
Hacked emails reveal systematic attempts to block FoI requests from sceptics — and deep frustration at anti-warming agenda Read more: Climate change emails between scientists reveal flaws in peer review Controversy behind climate science's 'hockey stick' graph Few scientists realised that freedom of information laws being introduced in Britain, the US and elsewhere would impinge strongly on ...
Around seven in every thousand morbidly obese people are missing part of their DNA
Published February 4, 2010, 2:36 am, News-Medical-Net
A small but significant proportion of morbidly obese people are missing a section of their DNA, according to research published today in Nature. The authors of the study, from Imperial College London and ten other European Centres, say that missing DNA such as that identified in this research may be having a dramatic effect on some people's weight.
Gene link to obesity
Published February 3, 2010, 11:44 pm, News 24 South Africa
Debate over the obesity epidemic sweeping parts of the world has focussed on whether lifestyle or genes are also to blame.
Some Morbidly Obese People Are Missing Genes
Published February 3, 2010, 10:23 pm, redOrbit
A small but significant proportion of morbidly obese people are missing a section of their DNA, according to research published today in Nature.
Morbidly obese are missing genes
Published February 3, 2010, 10:02 pm, New Kerala
London, Feb 4 : A small number of extremely overweight people may be missing a section of their DNA, according to a new study.
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