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• Non-inherited mutations account for many heart defects
• Four new genetic risk factors for testicular cancer identified
• Gene associated with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis identified
• Research on cilia heats up: Implications for hearing, vision loss and kidney disease
• War spawns new approaches for wounded service members' pain care

Non-inherited mutations account for many heart defects Posted: 12 May 2013 11:12 AM PDT New mutations that are absent in parents but appear in their offspring account for at least 10 percent of severe congenital heart disease, reveals a massive genomics study.

Four new genetic risk factors for testicular cancer identified Posted: 12 May 2013 11:12 AM PDT A new study looking at the genomes of more than 13,000 men identified four new genetic variants associated with an increased risk of testicular cancer, the most commonly diagnosed type in young men today.

Gene associated with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis identified Posted: 12 May 2013 11:09 AM PDT Researchers have identified the first gene to be associated with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (also called AIS) across Asian and Caucasian populations. The gene is involved in the growth and development of the spine during childhood.

Research on cilia heats up: Implications for hearing, vision loss and kidney disease Posted: 12 May 2013 11:06 AM PDT Experiments have unearthed clues about which protein signaling molecules are allowed into hollow, hair-like "antennae," called cilia, that alert cells to critical changes in their environments.

War spawns new approaches for wounded service members' pain care Posted: 11 May 2013 04:48 PM PDT Better body armor and rapid aeromedical evacuations enable American service members to survive blasts that would have proved fatal in Vietnam or even the first Gulf War, but they pose new challenges to military medicine – how to deal with the excruciating pain of injuries, especially severe burns from IED blasts that body armor can't protect.

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