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Can’t Stand Your Co-Worker’s Perfume? There’s A Reason For That.
Posted from Blisstree » FEEL 3 days ago
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You know that co-worker whose perfume smells really bad? Or that friend’s house that reeks of dirty socks? If you can’t stand these smells and they give you headaches, you may not just be overly-sensitive to bad odors, you may actually suffer from a chemical intolerance. According to a n... (original story)
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How Anxiety Could Be Wrecking Your Physical Health
Posted from Blisstree » FEEL 7 days ago
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Even though a reported 20% of the American population is now on mental health drugs, we still don’t talk about the related conditions and diseases nearly enough. Yes, depression makes the headlines often and people are finally becoming more open about it, but what other other mental health con... (original story)
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Cohesin Protects Genes against γH2AX Induced by DNA Double-Strand Breaks
Posted from PLoS Genetics: New Articles 7 days ago
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by Pierre Caron, Francois Aymard, Jason S. Iacovoni, Sébastien Briois, Yvan Canitrot, Beatrix Bugler, Laurent Massip, Ana Losada, Gaëlle Legube Chromatin undergoes major remodeling around DNA double-strand breaks (DSB) to promote repair and DNA damage response (DDR) activation. We recentl... (original story)
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Insulin Signaling Regulates Fatty Acid Catabolism at the Level of CoA Activation
Posted from PLoS Genetics: New Articles 7 days ago
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by Xiaojun Xu, Peddinti Gopalacharyulu, Tuulikki Seppänen-Laakso, Anna-Liisa Ruskeepää, Cho Cho Aye, Brian P. Carson, Silvia Mora, Matej Orešič, Aurelio A. Teleman The insulin/IGF signaling pathway is a highly conserved regulator of metabolism in flies and mammals, regulating multiple ... (original story)
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A Spontaneous Mutation of the Rat Themis Gene Leads to Impaired Function of Regulatory T Cells Linked to Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Posted from PLoS Genetics: New Articles 7 days ago
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by Marianne Chabod, Christophe Pedros, Lucille Lamouroux, Céline Colacios, Isabelle Bernard, Dominique Lagrange, Daniela Balz-Hara, Jean-Francois Mosnier, Christian Laboisse, Nathalie Vergnolle, Olivier Andreoletti, Marie-Paule Roth, Roland Liblau, Gilbert J. Fournié, Abdelhadi Saoudi, Anne S. Dej... (original story)
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DNA Methylation and Gene Expression Changes in Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Psoriasis: Identification of Epigenetically Dysregulated Genes
Posted from PLoS Genetics: New Articles 7 days ago
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by Kristina Gervin, Magnus D. Vigeland, Morten Mattingsdal, Martin Hammerø, Heidi Nygård, Anne O. Olsen, Ingunn Brandt, Jennifer R. Harris, Dag E. Undlien, Robert Lyle Monozygotic (MZ) twins do not show complete concordance for many complex diseases; for example, discordance rates for aut... (original story)
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Progressive Polycomb Assembly on H3K27me3 Compartments Generates Polycomb Bodies with Developmentally Regulated Motion
Posted from PLoS Genetics: New Articles 7 days ago
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by Thierry Cheutin, Giacomo Cavalli Polycomb group (PcG) proteins are conserved chromatin factors that maintain silencing of key developmental genes outside of their expression domains. Recent genome-wide analyses showed a Polycomb (PC) distribution with binding to discrete PcG response ele... (original story)
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Strange TODAY Show Story Reminds Us That “Hysteria” Is Still A Thing
Posted from Blisstree » FEEL 7 days ago
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Yesterday on the TODAY Show, a group of 12 teenage girls from New York discussed the sudden, bizarre onset of a Tourette’s-esque disorder that’s resulted, for no clear reason, in all of them displaying tics, twitches, and uncontrollable outbursts. And while the epidemic itself sounds ... (original story)
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Yes, Even Mentally Ill Women Have Reproductive Rights
Posted from Blisstree » FEEL 7 days ago
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File this in the really, they can do that? category: A judge in Massachusetts tried to order a mentally ill pregnant woman to have an abortion, and thereafter be sterilized. Thankfully, an appeals court intervened. According to the Boston Globe, the 32-year-old pregnant woman, identified by the p... (original story)
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Tempo and Mode in Evolution of Transcriptional Regulation
Posted from PLoS Genetics: New Articles 7 days ago
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by Kacy L. Gordon, Ilya Ruvinsky Perennial questions of evolutionary biology can be applied to gene regulatory systems using the abundance of experimental data addressing gene regulation in a comparative context. What is the tempo (frequency, rate) and mode (way, mechanism) of transcription... (original story)
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