News articles tagged with 'translocation'
Intervention offers 'best chance' to save species endangered by climate change
— 18 Mar 2011 14:39 | EnvironmentA University of York scientist is proposing a radical programme of 'assisted colonisation' to save species endangered by climate change…
Nepal translocates first wild tiger
— 23 Jan 2011 19:56 | EnvironmentA wild tiger fitted with satellite-collar was successfully translocated from Nepal's Chitwan National Park to Bardia National Park for the first time on Saturday…
Researchers find new translocation; weak spots in DNA lead to genetic disease
— 30 Jul 2010 09:04 | HealthA genetics research team based at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia continues to discover recurrent translocations - places in which two chromosomes exchange pieces of themselves.…
A new target for lymphoma therapy
— 10 Dec 2009 07:50 | HealthResearchers at the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine and the Immune Disease Institute at Children's Hospital Boston (PCMM/IDI) have found a link between a common mutation that…
Random DNA mix-ups not so random in cancer development
— 4 Dec 2009 11:22 | HealthResearchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine have pinpointed a mechanism that may help explain how chromosomal translocations - the supposedly random shuffling of large chunks…
French male bears in immediate need of more females
— 28 Oct 2009 11:20 | BiologyThe population of brown bears (Ursus arctos) in France is now so small that the species might become extinct in the near future. However, there is new hope in the form of new research…
Key mechanism that occurs at the inception point of many human lymphomas identified
— 12 Dec 2008 10:06 | HealthResearchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) have explained how certain key mutations occur in human lymphomas - a process that has, until…
Broken DNA must find right partners quickly amid repairs
— 23 Jul 2008 17:00 | HealthJust as square dance partners join hands at a particular point in the music, so broken pieces of DNA in our cells reunite as they are repaired. Precisely and quickly, these DNA pieces…
Microenvironment a main driver of aggressive multi-lineage leukaemia disease type
— 10 Jun 2008 02:46 | HealthResearch led by scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre has revealed new clues into what causes different types of a particularly aggressive group of blood cancers…
Discovery offers new avenues to understanding an aggressive form of leukaemia
— 15 Apr 2008 14:52 | HealthResearchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered evidence that a series of genetic mutations work together to initiate most cases of an aggressive and often-fatal…