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Mayo Clinic Researchers Discover Biomarkers for Prostate Cancer Detection, Recurrence

Click Here to Read More … Alterations to the “on-off” switches of genes occur early in the development of prostate cancer and could be used as biomarkers to detect the disease months or even years earlier than current approaches, a Mayo Clinic study has found.
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Pulling The Plug On Pacifiers Questioned By Researchers

Click Here to Read More … Binkies, corks, soothers. Whatever you call pacifiers, conventional wisdom holds that giving them to newborns can interfere with breastfeeding. New research, however, challenges that assertion…
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Researchers discover new genes contributing to autism, genetic links between neurodevelopment and psychiatric disorders

Click Here to Read More … A new approach to investigating hard-to-find chromosomal abnormalities has identified 33 genes associated with autism and related disorders, 22 for the first time. Several of these genes also appear to be altered in different ways in individuals with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia.
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Suicide Researchers Gather to Talk Veterans, Bullying, Adolescents, Prevention

Click Here to Read More … Physicians, researchers, psychologists, social workers and educators are gathering April 18-21 at the American Association of Suicidology Conference in Baltimore to discuss and present the latest in suicide prevention and research on topics such as post-traumatic stress disorder, college and youth mental health and bullying.
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Mayo Clinic Researchers Building Melanoma Vaccine to Combat Skin Cancer

Click Here to Read More … Mayo Clinic researchers have trained mouse immune systems to eradicate skin cancer from within, using a genetic combination of human DNA from melanoma cells and a cousin of the rabies virus.
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Researchers ID Gene Behind Primary Cervical Dystonia, a Neck-Twisting Disorder

Click Here to Read More … Researchers have identified a gene that causes adult-onset primary cervical dystonia, an often-painful condition in which patients’ necks twist involuntarily.
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Mayo Researchers Provide Atomic View of a Histone Chaperone

Click Here to Read More … Mayo Clinic researchers have gained insights into the function of a member of a family of specialized proteins called histone chaperones.
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Mass. General researchers isolate egg-producing stem cells from adult human ovaries

Click Here to Read More … Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have isolated egg-producing stem cells from the ovaries of reproductive age women and shown these cells can produce what appear to be normal egg cells or oocytes.
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WIC Breastfeeding Rate Data Confirmed By Researchers

Click Here to Read More … While medical professionals have long known breastfeeding positively impacts infant and maternal health, few effective tools are available to measure breastfeeding practices nationally. According to a new study, one preexisting government-funded program is a potential wealth of accurate data about the breastfeeding practices of low-income mothers…
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NARSAD Researchers Identify Specific Genes and Family Traits Linked to Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder and Depression

Click Here to Read More … New findings from research conducted by Harvard-affiliated scientists are providing important clues into how genes work to impair various aspects of attention, memory and perception — the behaviors associated with many psychiatric illnesses, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression.
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