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Inherited gene faults could play greater role in advanced prostate cancer than previously thought (Cancer Research UK)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Jul 2016
Inherited gene faults are more common among men with advanced prostate cancer than in those with localised disease, UK and US researchers have found(link is external) ... The faults were discovered in genes that control how cells repair their DNA ... Around one in eight advanced prostate cancer patients (12%) were found to have at least one inherited fault in a DNA repair gene....

Super-sniffer mice may help detect land mines in the future

Edit DNA India 12 Jul 2016
"This is one of our five basic senses, yet we have almost no clue how odours are coded by the brain," said Paul Feinstein, an associate professor at Hunter College ... He introduced the DNA for an odour receptor gene transgenically, by injection into the nucleus of a fertilised egg cell. He also added an extra string of DNA to the gene sequence to see if it would alter the probability of the gene being chosen....

I did not intend The Gene to be provocative: Pulitzer-prize winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee

Edit Indian Express 12 Jul 2016
The Gene, as the subtitle points out, is also an intimate narrative ... I started writing The Gene just a few months after finishing Emperor of All Maladies, sometime in 2011 ... Was that deliberate, because you talk in fair detail about the dangers of eugenics and also about how genes can predict the future, but not in absolution? ... For most readers, the idea of the gene is limited to the nature versus nurture debate....

"Superbug" gene detected in 2nd U.S. patient

Edit Xinhua 12 Jul 2016
WASHINGTON, July 11 (Xinhua) -- Bacteria carrying the MCR-1 "superbug" gene, which makes the last-resort antibiotic colistin useless against them, have been found in a second U.S ... The gene was detected in an isolate of Escherichia coli that was originally recovered in 2015 from a patient in New York, according to the research published in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology....

Viejos moteles cobran nueva vida ayudando a las personas sin hogar a sanar

Edit Journal News 12 Jul 2016
Click to view slideshow. Justo al final de la autopista de Disneyland, en la ciudad Buena Park, en el condado de Orange, Paul Leon está parado fuera de lo que queda de un hotel de mala muerte ... ....

Red hair genes could increase the risk of developing skin cancer as much as 21 years in the sun

Edit Business Insider 12 Jul 2016
LONDON (Reuters) - Having genes that give you red hair, pale skin and freckles increases your risk of developing skin cancer as much as an extra 21 years' exposure to the sun, researchers said on Tuesday. Their study found gene variants that produce red hair and freckly, fair skin were linked to a higher number of mutations that lead to skin cancers....

A genetic link between red hair, freckles and skin cancer

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 12 Jul 2016
For those who carry an allele, or gene variant, associated with red hair and freckles, cancer-causing genetic mutations occur at a rate 42 per cent greater than they do for people who don't carry that gene variant. As a result, the average carrier of at least one problematic variant of the melanocortin 1 receptor, or MC1R, gene tends to develop cancer-promoting mutations at roughly the same rate as a person 21 years her senior....

Huge study of diabetes risk shows many common genes at play

Edit Deccan Chronicle 12 Jul 2016
A study examining the genes of more than 120,000 people from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas has offered the clearest picture yet of the genes that drive type 2 diabetes ... And it has identified more than a dozen specific genes directly involved in the development of type 2 diabetes that might serve as potential drug targets ... of genes at a time....

'Ginger gene' linked to skin cancer risk, study shows

Edit RTE 12 Jul 2016
An inherited "ginger gene" associated with red hair, pale skin and freckles is directly linked to the genetic risk of developing skin cancer, new evidence has shown for the first time. The MC1R gene variant can increase the risk of skin cancer by the equivalent of 21 extra years of sun exposure, say scientists ... They found an average of 42% more sun-associated mutations in tumours from people carrying the MC1R gene variant....
photo: Creative Commons / Jamie McCaffrey
An illusionist on the Sparks Street Mall with young red-haired girl

Hidden red hair gene a skin cancer risk

Edit BBC News 12 Jul 2016
People can carry a "silent" red hair gene that raises their risk of sun-related skin cancer, experts warn ... The gene's effect is comparable to two decades of sun exposure in terms of cancerous changes, they say. While people with two copies of the gene will have ginger hair, freckles and pale skin and probably know to take extra care in the sun, those with one copy may not realise they are at risk....

Skin cancer risk for freckly red-heads equivalent to 21 years in sun

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 12 Jul 2016
Their study found gene variants that produce red hair and freckly, fair skin were linked to a higher number of mutations that lead to skin cancers....

Superbug Discovered: MCR-1 Bacteria Gene Found In 10 Countries Around The Globe

Edit Inquisitr 12 Jul 2016
A superbug gene found in a New York patient, MCR-1, is a severely strong bacteria that is resistant to colistin ... coli with MCR-1 gene has also been found in a sample taken from a Pennsylvania woman ... Medical and health experts in the United States have deemed the discovery of the MCR-1 gene exceptionally “disturbing,” Cubic Lane reports ... A total of 19 of the samples tested so far carry the MCR-1 gene....

Colistin-resistant gene detected in US for the second time

Edit Science Daily 12 Jul 2016
For the second time, a clinical isolate of a bacterial pathogen has been detected in the US, which carries the colistin resistance gene, mcr-1. It may also be the first plasmid-mediated colistin resistance gene to show up in the US. That would be concerning because plasmids, genetic elements that are independent of the host genome, often jump between different bacterial species, spreading any resistance genes they carry ... ....
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