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Home - OMRF News - Archives for birth defects

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Pezza, Roberto Jose

Dawson, Dean

OMRF scientist is a “molecular mechanic”

December 27, 2010

Researcher looking for triggers that can lead to birth defects, diseases

Filed Under: Featured News, News, Research News Tagged With: birth defects, cancer, DNA, molecular mechanic, Rankin, scientist-news, sororin, Susannah, Susannah Rankin

Keeping genetic order: OMRF scientists pinpoint body’s system for preventing chromosomal defects

July 7, 2008

Scientists have long studied the process of meiosis, the type of cell division that produces egg and sperm cells. But a full understanding of the process, which is known to play a key role in causing birth defects such as Down syndrome, has remained elusive. Led by Michael Dresser, M.D., Ph.D., a team of scientists […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: autism, birth defects, chromosome, Conchello, Conrad, Down syndrome, Dresser, Konovchenko

Children’s Diseases

Kids aren’t just small adults. Their needs are unique, and diseases can affect them differently. OMRF cell biologists are at work looking for the triggers that lead to problems in cell division that can cause birth defects like Down syndrome and even cancers. Immunologists are looking at a newly discovered cell that may trigger the […]

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