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Friday Science Review: March 5, 2010

Missing Enzyme Improves Metabolism: Mice lacking the TGH gene for the enzyme triacylglycerol hydrolase showed an unexpected dramatic improvement in their metabolic profile.  TGH is an enzyme that helps to release stored fat or triglycerides into the blood stream where it circulates to be used as an energy source or, if in excess, ends up [...]

Friday Science Review: February 26, 2010

A few medical research applications this week… Personalized Medicine – for Lung Cancer: To develop a personalized medicine approach to treating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), researchers generated a xenograft model where they implant human tumour tissue into the renal capsule of a host mouse.  As the tumour establishes itself, the mouse then becomes the [...]

Friday (the 13th) Science Review: November 13, 2009

No bad luck here in unraveling new genetic and proteomic links in disease… Gene Variants Linked to Hearing Loss:  A genetic link to hearing loss in children who are being treated with the chemotherapy drug, cisplatin, has been identified.  Cisplatin is a widely used anti-cancer drug but one of the harmful side effects is hearing [...]

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