Blogs Posts on "Genetics"

Mice with deleted gene less anxious, depressed by Anxiety Insights on Nov 16, 2009Graeme Baldwin - BioMed Central Removing the PKCI/HINT1 gene from mice has an antidepressant-like and anxiolytic-like effect. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience applied a battery of behavioral tests to the PKCI/HINT1 knoc...

Soon, Babies May Have Three Biological Parents by Technology Review on Nov 12, 2009Even though the combination of affluence and fertility drugs has raised the age at which many women give birth, children born to older women continue to suffer a disproportionately high rate of birth defects and genetic disease. Many of these problem...

Molecular Geneticist/Informaticist – Scottish Crop Research Institute by Free Financial Aid and Scholarship on Nov 9, 2009Molecular Geneticist/Informaticist Scottish Crop Research Institute- SCRI Salary: £26,610 – £29,566 SCRI is Scotland’s leading Institute for research on plants and their interactions with the environment, particularly in managed ecosys...

Hope For Breast Cancer Treatment With Cryo-Cell by iPentimento | Genealogy and History on Nov 9, 2009In 1939, breast cancer took the life of my great aunt, Elizabeth Yates Johnston at the young age of forty-nine. We’ve come a long way in treating breast cancer in the 70 years since her death,... That's not all, read on!

Abstract: Association study between GABA receptor genes and anxiety spectrum disorders by Anxiety Insights on Nov 6, 2009Depress Anxiety. 2009 Oct 19;26(11):998-1003Association study between GABA receptor genes and anxiety spectrum disorders Pham X, Sun C, Chen X, van den Oord EJ, Neale MC, Kendler KS, Hettema JM. Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Institute for Psych...

Gene linked to increased PTSD susceptibility by Anxiety Insights on Nov 3, 2009Bill Hathaway - Yale University A gene variant makes people who experienced trauma as children or adults more susceptible to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Yale researchers have found. The study, published in the November edition of the Archi...

Mattie update 10/09 by ShellyPlus4 on Oct 26, 2009This is an update from Mattie’s care page. I am thinking about moving everything over to my blog. Many of you have told me that you don’t like having to log in to read the updates on Care Pages. Let me know what you think. Thank you to m...

Understanding Genomics - its actually quite simple by zestos on Oct 20, 2009Visited a brilliant doctor, Dr Bill Reeder, last week with Tiffany who has some long term health issues. We were in the presence of greatness, as the saying goes. For the first time ever I felt I have visited a doctor who (a) really cared about us an...

Abstract: Serotonin polymorphisms and PTSD in a trauma exposed African American population by Anxiety Insights on Oct 20, 2009Depression Anxiety 2009 Oct 19;doi:10.1002/da.20627 Serotonin polymorphisms and posttraumatic stress disorder in a trauma exposed African American population Mellman TA, Alim T, Brown DD, Gorodetsky E, Buzas B, Lawson WB, Goldman D, Charney DS. Howa...

Garden Rant: Urban Gardening in Saigon by Landscaping Focus on Oct 17, 2009This article could easily be about gardening in any city in the US (the site of all trends worth tracking, right?) It's got concern for health, avoidance of pesticides - the whole shebang. The only difference I noted is the...