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Structure of the mariner transpososome.

Why jumping genes don’t send us into meltdown

20 Jun 2013

Scientists have explained, for the first time, how transposition is regulated in the bodies of humans and other living organisms.

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Example of fatty overgrowth, affecting specific body regions, caused by mutations in the phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase PI3K (AKT) signalling pahtway.

Cause of rare growth disease discovered

24 Jun 2012

Scientists hopeful discovery will provide a biological target for drug therapy.

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H5N1

Avian flu viruses which are transmissible between humans could evolve in nature

21 Jun 2012

Research provides insight into feasibility of virus becoming airborne transmissible.

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Replacement of a faulty gene by gene therapy

Clean correction of a patient’s genetic mutation

13 Oct 2011

New gene therapy methods accurately correct mutation in patient’s stem cells, bringing personalized cell therapies one step closer.

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Sign Post

Finding the ‘genetic signposts’ of disease

01 Sep 2007

One of the biggest projects ever undertaken to identify genetic variants that predispose some people to certain diseases was begun in 2005, thanks to...

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