Oncology & Cancer
Ovarian cancer genetics unravelled
Patterns of genetic mutation in ovarian cancer are helping make sense of the disease, and could be used to personalise treatment in future.
Aug 14, 2018
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Nature Genetics
Genetics
A new class of drugs could prevent resistant COVID-19 variants, study finds
The constant evolution of new COVID-19 variants makes it critical for clinicians to have multiple therapies in their arsenal for treating drug-resistant infections. Researchers have now discovered that a new class of oral ...
Mar 9, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Study discovers 40 new genetic variants associated with colorectal cancer risk
The most comprehensive genome-wide association study, or GWAS, of colorectal cancer risk to date, published today in Nature Genetics, has discovered 40 new genetic variants and validated 55 previously identified variants ...
Dec 3, 2018
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Genetics
Researchers identify novel genetic variants linked to type-2 diabetes
After examining the genes of more than 200,000 people all over the world who have type-2 diabetes, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Veterans Health Administration's ...
Jun 23, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
First comprehensive survey of virus DNA found within cancer cells
Researchers from the University of East Anglia have helped to carry out the first comprehensive survey of viruses found within different types of cancer.
Feb 5, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Powerful technique details brain tumors' formidable resiliency
A team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, the New York Genome Center, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has profiled in unprecedented detail ...
Oct 1, 2021
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Genetics
Identical twins aren't perfect clones, research shows
If you're an identical twin who's always resisted being called a clone of your sibling, scientists say you have a point.
Jan 7, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Diarrhea-causing bacteria adapted to spread in hospitals
Scientists have discovered that the gut-infecting bacterium Clostridium difficile is evolving into two separate species, with one group highly adapted to spread in hospitals. Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, ...
Aug 12, 2019
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Medical research
Study identifies potential drug treatments for telomere diseases
Capping decades of research, a new study may offer a breakthrough in treating dyskeratosis congenita and other so-called telomere diseases, in which cells age prematurely. Using cells donated by patients with the disease, ...
Apr 22, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
New genes associated with breast cancer risk
Only a small percentage of breast cancer cases can be linked to heredity, and many of the genes with ties to the disease are unknown.
Jun 26, 2018
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