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Disorder in Gene-Control System is a Defining Characteristic of Cancer, Study Finds

Findings indicate that the disarray in the on-off mechanism is one of the defining characteristics of cancer.
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Scientists Map the Human Loop-ome, Revealing a New Form of Genetic Regulation

Researchers describe the results of a five-year effort to map, in unprecedented detail, how the 2-meter long human genome folds inside the nucleus of a cell.
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Scientists Create Food Ingredient That will Make you Feel Fuller

Scientists have developed an ingredient that can be added to foods to make them more filling.
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Scientists find drug that helps Huntington's disease-afflicted mice—and their offspring

Famine, drug abuse and even stress can “silence” certain genes, causing health problems in generations to come. Now scientists are wondering—could therapies that change gene expression in parents help their children?
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Diverse autism mutations lead to different disease outcomes

People with autism have a wide range of symptoms, with no two people sharing the exact type and severity of behaviors. Now a large-scale analysis of hundreds of patients and nearly 1000 genes has started to uncover how diversity among traits can be traced to differences in patients’ genetic mutations.
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Scientists Discover Brain Mechanism that Drives us to Eat Glucose

Scientists have discovered a mechanism in the brain that may drive our appetite for foods rich in glucose and could lead to improved treatments for obesity.
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Business Boom for Autoscribe

Company is seeing a further UK business growth of close to 30% in the current financial year.
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Diamond Celebrates a Glittering Year of Crystallography

From film premieres to major scientific breakthroughs, Diamond Light Source helped make the International Year of Crystallography a memorable event.
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Using light to understand the brain

Researchers have developed an innovative way to understand how the brain works by using flashes of light, allowing them to both 'read' and 'write' brain signals University College London (UCL) researchers have developed an innovative way to understand how the brain works by using flashes of light, allowing them to both 'read' and 'write' brain signals.
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New non-invasive method can detect Alzheimer's disease early

MRI probe technology shows brain toxins in living animals for first time No methods currently exist for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease, which affects one out of nine people over the age of 65.
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