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Genetic variants linked to educational level
Researchers Gain Insight into Key Protein Linked to Development of Cancers and Neurodegenerative Disorders
Poor Sleep Linked to PTSD After Heart Attack

Genetic variants linked to educational level

Posted: 31 May 2013 07:11 AM PDT

An international collaboration involving data from, amongst other sources, the Swedish Twin Registry at Karolinska Institutet, has found several DNA variants that show a statistically significant association with educational attainment. The study is published in the scientific journal Science and is based on the results of 50 different sub-studies.

Researchers Gain Insight into Key Protein Linked to Development of Cancers and Neurodegenerative Disorders

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:44 PM PDT

Virginia Commonwealth University researchers studying a key molecular player called Hsp70 that is responsible for protein homeostasis have uncovered how it binds together with another molecule responsible for intracellular energy transfer to enhance its overall activity and efficiency – details that have previously not been well understood.

Poor Sleep Linked to PTSD After Heart Attack

Posted: 30 May 2013 07:03 AM PDT

Clinicians have long speculated that poor sleep may be a mechanism involved in the higher risk of further cardiac events or death among those with post-traumatic stress disorder following a heart attack, but the association between PTSD and sleep after a heart event has been unknown.