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脑部基因活性取决于基因背景
10-10-20 Researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science have found that the same genes have different activity patterns in the brain in individuals with different genetic backgrounds. These findings may help to explain individual differences in the eff...
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研究人员发现影响遗传物质交换的蛋白质
10-10-14 A team led by a scientist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has discovered a regulatory protein that influences where genetic material gets swapped（交换，交易） between maternal and paternal chromosomes（染色体） during the process...
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利用光遗传学模拟肌肉运动
10-09-27 Researchers at Stanford University were able to use light to induce（诱导，引诱） normal patterns of muscle contraction, in a study involving bioengineered mice whose nerve-cell surfaces are coated with special light-sensitive proteins. The new appr...
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压力可以控制我们的基因
10-09-25 Stress has become one of the major disease states in the developed world. But what is stress? It depends on from where you look. You may experience stress as something that affects your entire body and mind, the causes of which are plentiful. But if...
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可加重老年痴呆症危险的基因被发现
10-09-25 Researchers have identified a gene that appears to increase a person's risk of developing late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD), the most common type of the disease. Abbreviated（缩写） MTHFD1L, a gene on chromosome（染色体） six, was identified in a ge...
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某基因限制了鼠类的学习、记忆能力
10-09-20 Deleting a certain gene in mice can make them smarter by unlocking a mysterious region of the brain considered to be relatively inflexible, scientists at Emory University School of Medicine have found. Mice with a disabled RGS14 gene are able to rem...
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某基因变体可降低乳腺癌风险
10-09-20 Individuals with disrupting mutations in the BRCA1 gene are known to be at substantially（实质上，大体上） increased risk of breast cancer throughout their lives. Now, discoveries from an international research team led by Mayo Clinic researchers sh...
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科学家发现导致高胆固醇的基因
10-09-16 Scientists at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR) in San Antonio have found a gene that causes high levels of bad cholesterol（胆固醇） to accumulate in the blood as a result of a high-cholesterol diet. Researchers studied a stra...
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研究人员发现精神分裂症风险基因
10-09-15 An international team of researchers has identified a risk gene for schizophrenia（精神分裂症） , including a potentially causative mutation（突变，变化） , using genome-wide association data-mining techniques and independent replications. The resul...
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新疗法可减少癌症治疗中干细胞损耗
10-09-06 Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a gene critical for programmed cell death is also important in the loss of adult stem cells, a finding that could help to improve the health and well-being of patients underg...
