DiGeorge Syndrome is a medical term for a set of symptoms which are part of what is now understood to be 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Angelo DiGeorge, for whom the syndrome is named, described four children in 1965 with the triad of thymic hypoplasia, hypoparathyroidism, and recurrent infection. As further cases were investigated, the syndrome came to be known as DiGeorge association, and to encompass congenital cardiac anomalies, craniofacial malformations, and learning dysfunction due to defects in the third and fourth pharyngeal pouches during embryogenesis.
NHGRI Seeks DNA Sequencing Technologies Fit for Routine Laboratory and Medical Use Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:45:00 -0400 The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today awarded more than $20 million in grants to develop innovative sequencing technologies inexpensive and efficient enough to sequence a person's DNA as a routine part of biomedical research and health care. Bacterial Pneumonia Caused Most Deaths in 1918 Influenza Pandemic Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:00:00 -0400 The majority of deaths during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 were not caused by the influenza virus acting alone, report researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. Instead, most victims succumbed to bacterial pneumonia following influenza virus infection. The pneumonia was caused when bacteria that normally inhabit the nose and throat invaded the lungs along a pathway created when the virus destroyed the cells that line the bronchial tubes and lungs. Largest Study of Its Kind Implicates Gene Abnormalities in Bipolar Disorder Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:25:00 -0400 The largest genetic analysis of its kind to date for bipolar disorder has implicated machinery involved in the balance of sodium and calcium in brain cells. Researchers supported in part by the National Institute of Mental Health, part of the National Institutes of Health, found an association between the disorder and variation in two genes that make components of channels that manage the flow of the elements into and out of cells, including neurons.
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Is your kid really gifted? Probably not Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:58:38 -0400 Did your child walk and talk early? Does she have a brain like a sponge? Scribble magnificently? Love learning? Ask questions that leave you marveling (and scrambling to Google an answer)? Wow, clearly she's a genius! Or, um, maybe not.
Doctor dives in to repair Torres' shoulder Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:58:51 -0400 A nagging injury almost kept 41-year-old Dara Torres from competing in her fifth Olympics in Beijing, China. Instead she swam through the pain to capture three silver medals.
22q and You Center - Symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of chromosome 22q11.2 deletion, a genetic disorder associated with DiGeorge, velocardiofacial and other syndromes.
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