Researcher's microdissection device hits the market to fight cancer
A new device designed to more effectively produce DNA samples for genetic testing from slide-mounted tissue samples is better equipped than most models on the market to help in the diagnosis and treatment ...
Cancer
Mar 29, 2012 |
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DNA marker predicts platinum drug response in breast, ovarian cancer
Scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and their colleagues have found a genetic marker that predicts which aggressive "triple negative" breast cancers and certain ovarian cancers will ...
Cancer
Mar 22, 2012 |
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New prenatal genetic test is much more powerful at detecting fetal abnormalities
A nationwide, federally funded study has found that testing a developing fetus' DNA through chromosomal microarray (CMA) provides more information about potential disorders than does the standard method of prenatal testing, ...
Genetics
Feb 09, 2012 |
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New test offers greater accuracy in early detection of colorectal cancer
Results of two studies suggest that a new, investigational colorectal cancer screening test developed in a collaboration between Mayo Clinic and Exact Sciences Inc. of Madison, Wis., is highly accurate and significantly more ...
Cancer
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Singapore admits DNA test procedures not followed
Official DNA testing procedures were not properly followed in more than 400 investigations in Singapore, the city-state's authorities have admitted.
Other
Jan 04, 2012 |
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Genetic evaluation should be part of retinoblastoma care
Results of a study by Baylor College of Medicine physicians underscore the important role that clinical genetic evaluation can have in the management plan of patients with retinoblastoma, a childhood cancer of the eye.
Cancer
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Gene responsible for relapses in young leukemia patients
One of the causes of resistance to cancer treatment in children is now beginning to be elucidated. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients with a particular form of the ATF5 gene are at higher risk of having a relapse when ...
Cancer
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Study shows that new DNA test to identify Down syndrome in pregnancy is ready for clinical use
A new DNA-based prenatal blood test that can strikingly reduce the number of risky diagnostic procedures needed to identify a pregnancy with Down syndrome is ready to be introduced into clinical practice. The test can be ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Improved method for detecting mutant DNAs
Molecular DNA testing methods offer clinicians powerful tools that serve to confirm or identify disease diagnoses. High sensitivity and high specificity, however, are frequently a challenge to achieve with these methods. ...
Medical research
Oct 11, 2011 |
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New prenatal blood tests can check fetal DNA, raising ethical questions
Soon a simple blood test will be able to tell newly pregnant women if they are carrying a child with Down syndrome - raising the prospect, and perhaps peril, of a world with fewer imperfections.
Genetics
Sep 16, 2011 |
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Research gives new hope to those with rare vascular cancer
A specific genetic alteration has been discovered as a defining feature of epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE), a rare but devastating vascular cancer. These findings have also been used to develop a new diagnostic test ...
Cancer
Aug 31, 2011 |
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BUSM professor authors book on how knowledge about genes and family history can save lives
World-renowned genetics expert Aubrey Milunsky, MD, DSc, has penned a new book focused on new DNA tests that have dramatically expanded our ability to avoid, prevent, diagnose, predict and treat many genetic disorders. Based ...
Genetics
Aug 26, 2011 |
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Tests that use DNA from mother's blood to determine sex of fetus often effective
As a noninvasive method of determining the sex of a fetus, tests using cell-free fetal DNA obtained from the mother's blood after 7 weeks gestation performed well, while urine-based tests appear to be unreliable, according ...
Health
Aug 09, 2011 |
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Researchers find new genetic cause of blinding eye disease
Combining the expertise of several different labs, University of Iowa researchers have found a new genetic cause of the blinding eye disease retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and, in the process, discovered an entirely new version ...
Genetics
Aug 09, 2011 |
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Biosensor provides rapid virus field tests
Prof. Samuel Lo, Associate Head of the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, and Dr Derek Or, Associate Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, have jointly developed a Portable ...
Medical research
Aug 04, 2011 |
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