A particularly aggressive, metastasizing form of cancer, HER2-positive breast cancer, may be treated with nanoscopic particles ''imprinted'' with specific binding sites for the receptor molecule HER2.

Parental tug-of-war A Danish study has provided support for a controversial theory that says autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia are opposite ends of a spectrum, with normal brain function ...

Imprinting on someone means more than simply taking a liking to them. It means that their dog has chosen them as their ...

Since the turn of the century, circumstantial evidence has accumulated for the role of imprinted genes (those only expressed from one parent) in mental illnesses such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) ...

Scientists have created the first map of imprinted genes throughout the human genome. The new study revealed four times as many imprinted genes as had been previously identified. Many of the ...

Genomic imprinting — an epigenetic phenomenon that results in monoallelic expression according to parental origin — was recognized in mammals around 30 years ago from embryological and genetic studies ...

Modern science can trace its origin from Copernicus’s discovery of the Sun-centred solar system: something which made the prevailing Earth-centred view medieval by comparison. Inevitably, the ...

Up until now, researchers thought that roughly 130 genes in the genome are imprinted genes—meaning that the maternal or paternal copy of the gene is marked so that it is expressed differently. Now, ...

Genomic imprinting is manifested as differential allelic expression (DAE) depending on the parent-of-origin. The most direct way to identify imprinted genes is to directly score the DAE in a context ...