Genetic Archives - Page 3 of 11 - World Asthma Foundation

February 10, 2015

Mind-altering Drug Stymies Asthma Development – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Mind-altering Drug Stymies Asthma Development
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Scientists at the Louisiana State University Health New Orleans School of Medicine have found that a psychedelic drug, (R)-DOI, prevents the development of allergic asthma in a mouse model. The effects are potent and effective at a concentration 50-100 …
Study finds psychedelic drug prevents asthma development in miceMedical Xpress
Far out: Psychedelic drug prevents asthma development in miceScience Codex
Could A Psychedelic Drug Prevent Asthma?Science World Report
Medical News Today
all 12 news articles »

View full post on asthma – Google News

January 20, 2015

Rare genetic mutations unaccountable for ‘missing heritability’ in asthma – Healio

Rare genetic mutations unaccountable for 'missing heritability' in asthma
Healio
Catherine Igartua, PhD candidate, of the University of Chicago, and colleagues conducted a meta-analysis of 13 studies on ethnically diverse samples of asthma cases, nonasthmatic controls and case-parent trios. They sought to understand whether rare or …

View full post on asthma – Google News

January 18, 2015

Genetic mutations can’t explain asthma – Zee News

Zee News

Genetic mutations can't explain asthma
Zee News
"Previous studies have likely overestimated the heritability of asthma. This could be because those estimates are based on correlations between family members that share environment as well as genes, which could inflate the heritability," said Carole …

and more »

View full post on asthma – Google News

January 18, 2015

Genetic Mutations in Asthma Come into Question – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Genetic Mutations in Asthma Come into Question
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Estimates of heritability for asthma sufferers would suggest that nearly half of the variation in risk can be attributed to some type of genetic factor. However, common genetic variants that have been identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS …
Rare mutations do not explain 'missing heritability' in asthmaMedical Xpress
Rare mutations do not explain "missing heritability" in asthmaHealthCanal.com

all 4 news articles »

View full post on asthma – Google News

January 14, 2015

Asthma Drug Shows Promise in Treatment of Obesity and Diabetes – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Asthma Drug Shows Promise in Treatment of Obesity and Diabetes
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
University of Michigan scientists have revealed the underlying mechanisms on how an asthma drug currently in clinical trials for the treatment of obesity and other related metabolic disorders increases sugar metabolism by generating a novel signal …

and more »

View full post on asthma – Google News

January 7, 2015

Vectura Inks Asthma/COPD License Agreement with Janssen – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Vectura Inks Asthma/COPD License Agreement with Janssen
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Vectura, a respiratory product development company, has entered a license agreement with Janssen Biotech to exclusively develop anti-inflammatory therapies for the treatment of asthma/COPD. The collaboration will initially focus on the development of a …

View full post on asthma – Google News

December 6, 2014

Alpha-1, rare genetic disorder, often misdiagnosed as asthma – Naples Daily News

Naples Daily News

Alpha-1, rare genetic disorder, often misdiagnosed as asthma
Naples Daily News
The 66-year-old immigration attorney in Naples has Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency — Alpha-1 for short — which is often mistaken for asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. About 100,000 people in the United States have the condition. Wolff …

View full post on asthma – Google News

November 4, 2014

Genetic damage caused by asthma shows up in circulating blood stream, too – Medical Xpress

Genetic damage caused by asthma shows up in circulating blood stream, too
Medical Xpress
Asthma may be more harmful than was previously thought, according to UCLA researchers who found that genetic damage is present in circulating, or peripheral, blood. Doctors previously thought that the genetic damage it caused was limited to the lungs.

and more »

View full post on asthma – Google News

July 3, 2014

Genetic evidence that body mass increases the risk of asthma in mid-childhood – Science Codex

Genetic evidence that body mass increases the risk of asthma in mid-childhood
Science Codex
Some of the increase in asthma risk toward the end of the 20th century could be attributed to the increase in body mass index (BMI) in mid-childhood, according to new research published in this week's PLOS Medicine. The study, led by Raquel Granell …

View full post on asthma – Google News

July 1, 2014