Sentences with phrase «genetic glitch»

Hoping to cash in on personalized cancer therapy, a new company called Foundation Medicine — founded in part by genome guru Eric Lander of the Broad Institute — plans to develop tests for genetic glitches in tumors that make them vulnerable to specific drugs, reports the United Kingdom's Times Online.

A similar type of genetic glitch causes neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntingtonâ $ ™ s and several forms of spinocerebellar ataxia.

Researchers aiming to understand why autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are more common in boys have discovered differences in a brain signaling pathway involved in reward learning and motivation that make male mice more vulnerable to an autism - causing genetic glitch.

These days O'Rahilly stays plenty busy scrutinizing the DNA of 330 children who became severely obese before the age of ten, searching for other genetic glitches.

An international research consortium funded by NIH discovered that these disorders share certain genetic glitches.

Patterns in chaos Given the rarity of each copy number variation and genetic glitch in the autism population, «it's going to be tough to suggest that any one of those individually can contribute to the development of the disorder,» Gregory says.

The genetic glitch also correlated with lower insulin levels, a sign of better metabolic health.

A sweeping look at the DNA of more than half - a-million people has uncovered a surprise: A few individuals carry a genetic glitch that should make them very sick, yet they are instead seemingly healthy.

Looking across all the genetic glitches, investigators found that half the tumor samples had flaws in a cell process for repairing DNA known as homologous recombination.

In 1972, she identified a genetic glitch in chronic myelogenous leukemia cells — a swap of genes she called chromosomal translocation — that resulted in the uncontrolled cell growth of cancer.

-- because such a genetic glitch would spawn even more mutations.

She has been in remission for more than a year thanks to an immunotherapy treatment aimed at a genetic glitch, rather than aiming at the disease itself like chemotherapy does.

First, we're beneficiaries of school choice because a genetic glitch — bad luck, as it were — rendered our child incapable of learning like typical children and his disabilities qualify him for special education services guaranteed by law and paid for by local, state and federal funding.

These breeds originally came about as a result of a genetic glitch, and are typically more commonly found in warmer climates, or where there are selective breeding programs.