Posts Tagged ‘genes’

The Vitamin D deficiency is a very common problem nowadays and almost everyone knows that this problem is caused by inadequate exposure to right kind of sunlight or some kind of liver/kidney disorders but the modern science has shown some new and different results regarding this deficiency.

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According to new study the genetics could help us in determining a person’s risks of getting vitamin deficiency.

The overall analysis on this issue was carried by a team of researchers who focused on group of people who were specifically the white men and women of European descendant.The findings of the team were revealed online in advance of publication in an upcoming print issue of The Lancet. The researchers actually conducted quite a high tech genetic analysis of the participants and thus locate some specific points on their genome that were linked to the Vitamin D deficiency.

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A test that is offered to measure the activity of genes in white blood cells may prove helpful for doctors to find the suitable treatment when someone complains of chest pain, a report says.

The findings are going to be published in the first issue of a new American Heart Association Journal named, Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics. The journal will be released after every two months and according to Ramachandran S. Vasan, who is editor of the journal, “there is a dire need of such journal as the completion of the Human Genome Project is meant a quick acceleration of our knowledge regarding genes and their functionality.” Read the rest of this entry

broccoli.jpgLONDON: Merely a smaller number of parts “Broccoli” each week could protect men from prostate tumor, according to British reporters Wednesday.

The investigators expressed by the core of heart ,it is the chemical in food which embers hundreds of genetics alterations and turning on some of the genes that could fight malignant virus and knobbing others fuel cancers, said by Richard Mithen, a biologist at Britain Institute of Food Research.

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