Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Cancer Signatures Uncovered

�A modern systematic analysis of the relationship between the neoplastic and developmental transcriptome provides an outline of trends in cancer gene saying. The research, published lately in BioMed Central's receptive access journal Genome Biology, describes how cancers prat be divided into trine groups distinguished by disparate developmental signatures.


Isaac S Kohane from Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard University, US, led a team of researchers wHO performed a comprehensive compare of genes expressed in early developmental stages of various human tissues and those expressed in different cancers touching these tissues. He says, "Our study reveals potentially clinically relevant differences in the cistron expression of different cancer types and represents a reference framework for rendition of smaller-scale functional studies".


One of the three described groups of cancers has an other developmental phenotype and expresses genes that are characteristic of stem cells. From a developmental perspective, this group presents very homogeneously. A second gear, more heterogenous group tends to be more similar to late development and is characterized by an inflammatory signature tune. The tierce is a small group of cancers that confront as a transition phenotype between these two extremes and displays both characteristics.


According to Kohane, "This segregation of tumors into leash groups with distinct look patterns is surprising. Clearly, the developmental trajectory provides a meaningful background for capturing large-scale differences in gene manifestation across diverse conditions".


The study's results will lead towards a better understanding of human disease from a 'macrobiological' attack to analyzing high-throughput data. According to the authors, "Shifting our focus from single sets of genes or processes to the biology of aggregates on the order of the entire transcriptome is probable to be useful in establishing highly robust molecular correlations between seemingly unrelated disease phenotypes".


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Thursday, 7 August 2008

Element Of Crime

Element Of Crime   
Artist: Element Of Crime

   Genre(s): 
Folk
   Rock: Electronic
   Indie
   



Discography:


Romantik   
 Romantik

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10


Psycho   
 Psycho

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11


Die Schonen Rosen   
 Die Schonen Rosen

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 11


An Einem Sonntag Im April   
 An Einem Sonntag Im April

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 11


Weisses Papier   
 Weisses Papier

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 11


Damals Hinterm Mond   
 Damals Hinterm Mond

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 11


Live - Crime Pays   
 Live - Crime Pays

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 12


The Ballad Of Jimmy and Johnny   
 The Ballad Of Jimmy and Johnny

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 12


Freedom, Love And Happiness   
 Freedom, Love And Happiness

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 11


Try To Be Mensch   
 Try To Be Mensch

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 11


Basically Sad   
 Basically Sad

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 9


Best Of   
 Best Of

   Year:    
Tracks: 18




German stone candy grouping Element of Crime began in 1985, briefly subsequently a different Berlin-based striation to which Sven Regener (vocals, guitar, and trumpet) and Jakob Ilja (guitar) belonged dissolved. Not wanting to give up medicine, still, the





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