The architecture of hearing; the cloning of a string of genes that, when mutated, cause deafness without any other symptoms is opening a view of the inner workings of the auditory system and how it develops
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Molecular biologist Pedro Leon and geneticists Eric Lynch and Mary-Clair King have cloned the gene responsible for deafness in the M family, a trait traced back to the mid 1700s. Some 400 members of this Costa Rican family have gone deaf, a process beginning in many at about age 10.
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1997
Research, Genetic aspects, Deafness, Labyrinth (Ear), King, Mary-Claire, Leon, Pedro, Lynch, Eric
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1997
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Shaking out the cause of addiction
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Researchers have demonstrated that CREB proteins (cyclic AMP-responsive element-binding proteins) play a role in the severity of withdrawal symptoms from opiates in mice. Withdraw is much less severe in mice lacking two of the three types of CREB proteins.
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1996
Physiological aspects, Substance abuse, Drug withdrawal symptoms, Substance withdrawal syndrome
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1996
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