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From Focus:
Five
Gene Variations Hike Risk of Macular Degeneration
About half of the genetic risk for the leading cause of vision loss in older
people comes from only five common single-unit variations in the DNA code spread
over three genes, says a study by Johanna Seddon, Mark Daly, and their collaborators.
The findings may encourage people at high risk of advanced age-related macular
degeneration (AMD) to quit smoking, lose weight, and eat more vegetables to reduce
their chances of disease. In the long run, the greatest value of the work is
to expose the underlying disease mechanisms and develop interventions that better
prevent or treat AMD.
Upcoming
Center for Geographic Analysis
Introduction of CGA Services and
Its Relevance to Medicine
Wednesday, Oct. 4
4 pm
Speakers:
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Spotlight
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HMS
Researcher Takes Lasker Award
Jack Szostak, a Howard Hughes investigator and HMS professor
of genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital, has received
the 2006 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research along with
collaborators Elizabeth Blackburn of UCSF and Carol Greider
of Johns Hopkins. They are being honored for their work on
telomeres, the protective caps on the ends of chromosomes.
Student Scene
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An Offering to Earth Roots the
Child
Ellen Rothman describes the Navajo tradition of burying the stump
of a child’s umbilical cord after it falls off, symbolically
connecting the child to Earth and the guiding hand of the physical
world.
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