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		<title>DNA Test that Identifies Down Syndrome in Pregnancy Can Also Detect Trisomy 18 and Trisomy 13</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A newly available DNA-based prenatal blood test that can identify a pregnancy with Down syndrome can also identify two additional chromosome abnormalities: trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome) and trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome).The test for all three defects can be offered as early as 10 weeks of pregnancy to women who have been identified as being at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gene Regulator in Brain&#8217;s Executive Hub Tracked Across Lifespan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mental illness suspect genes are among the most environmentally responsive. For the first time, scientists have tracked the activity, across the lifespan, of an environmentally responsive regulatory mechanism that turns genes on and off in the brain&#8217;s executive hub. Among key findings of the study by National Institutes of Health scientists: genes implicated in schizophrenia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Same Genes Linked to Early- and Late-Onset Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The same gene mutations linked to inherited, early-onset Alzheimer’s disease have been found in people with the more common late-onset form of the illness. The discovery by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may lead doctors and researchers to change the way Alzheimer’s disease is classified. They report their findings Feb. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Neural Precursors, Bypassing Stem Cell Stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neuroscience News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mouse skin cells can be converted directly into cells that become the three main parts of the nervous system, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The finding is an extension of a previous study by the same group showing that mouse and human skin cells can be directly converted into functional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gene Mutation in Autism Found to Cause Hyperconnectivity in Brain’s Hearing Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hyperconnectivity triggered by loss of PTEN gene can be blocked by treatment with rapamycin. New research from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) might help explain how a gene mutation found in some autistic individuals leads to difficulties in processing auditory cues and paying spatial attention to sound. The study has found that when a suspected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genetic Breakthrough for Brain Cancer in Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadian-led research team identifies two mutations in crucial gene involved in deadly pediatric brain tumours. An international research team led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI MUHC) has made a major genetic breakthrough that could change the way pediatric cancers are treated in the future. The researchers identified two genetic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Envelope for an Artificial Cell</title>
		<link>http://neurosciencenews.com/artificial-cell-membranes-self-assembling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neuroscience News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chemists have taken an important step in making artificial life forms from scratch. Using a novel chemical reaction, they have created self-assembling cell membranes, the structural envelopes that contain and support the reactions required for life. Neal Devaraj, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and Itay Budin, a graduate student [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers Induce Alzheimer&#8217;s Neurons from Pluripotent Stem Cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First-ever feat provides new method to understand cause of disease, develop drugs Led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, scientists have, for the first time, created stem cell-derived, in vitro models of sporadic and hereditary Alzheimer&#8217;s disease (AD), using induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with the much-dreaded neurodegenerative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genetic Study Offers Clues to How Intelligence Changes Through Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have estimated for the first time the extent to which genes determine changes in intelligence across the human life course. The study found that genetic factors may account for about 24 per cent of changes in intelligence between childhood and old age. The findings also suggest that many of the genes that affect intelligence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A First: Brain Support Cells from Umbilical Cord Stem Cells</title>
		<link>http://neurosciencenews.com/umbilical-cords-stem-cell-research-oligodendrocytes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neuroscience News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time ever, stem cells from umbilical cords have been converted into other types of cells, which may eventually lead to new treatment options for spinal cord injuries and multiple sclerosis, among other nervous system diseases. &#8220;This is the first time this has been done with non-embryonic stem cells,&#8221; says James Hickman, a [...]]]></description>
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