Gene Hunting
... Many years of research have demonstrated that vulnerability to mental illnesses—such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, early-onset depression, anxiety disorders, autism, and attention deficit hype...

FDA Advisory Committee Discusses Steps for Potentially Continuing Certain Gene Therapy Trials That Were Recently Placed on Hold
... FDA's Biological Response Modifiers Advisory Committee (BRMAC) met today to discuss possible measures that could potentially allow a number of gene therapy trials that involve the use of retroviru...

Genes Promoting Nerve, Other Cell Communications May Have Come From Bacteria
... Some of the genes that allow nerve cells and some other types of cells to send elaborate chemical messages to each other appear to have been transferred to animals or their immediate ancestors from ba...

Honey Bee Genome Assembled
... Draft Sequence to Aid Agricultural, Biomedical Research Bethesda, Maryland — The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced ...

Newly Identified Tumor Suppressor Cooperates With p53 to Protect Mice Against Tumors
... Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, have identified a gene that plays an important role in preventing tumors in mice. In a study published in...

NHGRI Study May Help Scientists Design Safer Methods for Gene Therapy
... Researchers Map Integration Sites of Retroviral Vectors in Human Genome Bethesda, Maryland — Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) may have taken a major step toward...

NIH and FDA Launch New Human Gene Transfer Research Data System
... GeMCRIS will facilitate faster reporting of adverse events in human gene transfer trials The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that they ha...

Progress Made in Sequencing Of Model Organisms’ Genomes
... Chimp, Honeybee Genome Drafts Near Completion; Dog Project Begins Bethesda, Maryland — As efforts to build working drafts of the honeybee and chimpanzee genomes near completion, scientists are mo...

Researchers Discover Use of Novel Mechanism Preserves Y Chromosome Genes
... Human Genome Project Provides High-Quality Sequences Needed for Study Bethesda, Maryland — A detailed analysis of the just-completed sequence of the human Y chromosome — the chromosome that ...