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Ready, Go!Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 4:44PMStowers researchers pinpoint the Super Elongation Complex as a major regulator in the coordinated expression of early developmental genes.

This Week in NatureThursday, July 14, 2011 @ 10:44AMBy applying a statistical model to seven complete human genome sequences, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute's Heng Li and Richard Durbin have generated a " detailed history of human population sizes between approximately ten thousand and a million years ago," which they present in a paper published online in advance in Nature this week.

Project Achilles Pinpoints Vulnerabilities in Ovarian CancerMonday, July 11, 2011 @ 2:33PMIn their largest and most comprehensive effort to date, researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute examined cells from over 100 tumors, including 25 ovarian cancer tumors, to unearth the genes upon which cancers depend. One of these genes, PAX8, is altered in a significant fraction of ovarian tumors -- nearly one-fifth of those surveyed in the ...

Genome-scale study of 100 cell lines pinpoints vulnerabilities in ovarian cancerMonday, July 11, 2011 @ 2:07PMCancer is not invincible but its weaknesses can be difficult to detect. An effort known as Project Achilles — named after the Greek warrior whose one vulnerability led to his undoing — was launched to develop a systematic way of pinpointing these weak spots. In their largest and most comprehensive effort to date, researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the Dana-Farber Cancer ...

A first for Oak CreekWednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 12:34AMTwo women earn college credit certificates

LA/hypnosis combination during surgery can aid healing process, reduce drug use and hospital stay timeMonday, June 13, 2011 @ 1:05AMUsing a combination of hypnosis and local anaesthesia (LA) for certain types of surgery can aid the healing process and reduce drug use and time spent in hospital, anaesthesiologists have found. The combination could also help avoid cancer recurrence and metastases, according to new research to be presented today at the European Anaesthesiology Congress in Amsterdam.

Master Gene May Shed New Light On Lysosomal And Neurodegenerative DisordersSunday, May 29, 2011 @ 5:31AMCells, like ordinary households, produce "garbage" - debris and dysfunctional elements - that need disposal. When the mechanism for taking out this garbage fails, rare genetic diseases called lysosomal storage disorders (including Tay-Sachs, Batten and Fabry disease) can disable and even kill the children they affect. In adults, such failure leads to neurodegenerative diseases that occur later ...

How retinas develop: Scientists make strides in vision researchFriday, May 20, 2011 @ 4:26PMNew research is contributing to the basic biological understanding of how retinas develop. In two new studies, scientists document how they used mice as a research model organism to show that the size of different populations of retinal neurons display wide-ranging variability among individuals.

:: 18, May 2011 :: SCIENTISTS DISCOVER SWITCH TO SPEED UP STEM CELL PRODUCTION TO FACILITATE DEVELOPMENT OF TREATMENTS ...Tuesday, May 17, 2011 @ 9:27PMA team of scientists from Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have shown how proteins involved in controlling genes work together to carry out their functions in stem cells and demonstrated for the very first time, how they can change interaction partners to make other types of cells.