Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found out why some people live to 100 or more, despite the fact that they have as many, or sometimes even more, harmful gene variants as younger people. The scientists have uncovered favourable “longevity” genes that provide very old people with protection against [...]
An international database has been launched at the University of Edinburgh in order to benefit researchers studying high altitude pulmonary oedema (HAPE), a life-threatening condition that occurs at high altitude.The disease causes fluid to build up in the lungs, and can affect people of all age groups and fitness levels living at a height [...]
Ionizing radiation, toxic chemicals, and other agents continually damage the body’s DNA, threatening life and health: unrepaired DNA can lead to mutations, which in turn can lead to diseases like cancer. Intricate DNA repair mechanisms in the cells’ nuclei are constantly working to fix what’s broken, but whether the repair work happens “on the [...]
Mutations in the cell adhesion molecule known as integrin alpha 7 (integrin alpha 7) lead to unchecked tumor cell proliferation and a significantly higher incidence in cancer spread, or metastasis, in several cancer cell lines, report researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in a study being published today in the Journal [...]
The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, the largest ever study of the genetics behind common diseases such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and coronary heart disease, today publishes its results in the journals Nature and Nature Genetics.
The £9 million study is one of the UK’s largest and most successful academic collaborations to date. It has examined [...]