News tagged with genetic diagnosis
ALK rearrangement found in nearly 10 percent of patients in Lung Cancer Mutation Consortium
ALK rearrangement has been found in 9.6% of lung cancer patients tested in the Lung Cancer Mutation Consortium, and MET amplification in another 4.1%, reflecting how many patients might benefit from targeted therapies such ...
Cancer
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Computational software provides rapid identification of disease-causing gene variations
Scientists from the University of Utah and Omicia, Inc., a privately held company developing tools to interpret personal genome sequences, today announced the publication in Genome Research of a new software tool called VAAST, ...
Genetics
Jun 23, 2011 |
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Cause of hereditary blindness discovered
Initially the occurrence of progressive retinal degeneration - progressive retinal atrophy, in man called retinitis pigmentosa - had been identified in Schapendoes dogs. Retinitis pigmentosa is the most common hereditary ...
Ophthalmology
Jun 22, 2011 |
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Targeted testing offers treatment hope for ovarian cancer patients
Women with ovarian cancer could be helped by a new test that identifies the specific type of tumour they have, a conference will hear this week.
Cancer
May 31, 2011 |
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PGD can permit the birth of healthy children to women carrying mitochondrial DNA disease
Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) can give women at risk of passing on a mitochondrial DNA disorder to their offspring a good chance of being able to give birth to an unaffected child, a researcher told the annual ...
Genetics
May 30, 2011 |
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New genetic testing technology for IVF embryos
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have devised a new technique, which helps couples that are affected by or are carriers of genetic diseases have in vitro fertilized babies free of both the disease ...
Medical research
May 23, 2011 |
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Scientists use genetically altered virus to get tumors to tattle on themselves
Scientists have used a genetically re-engineered herpes virus that selectively hunts down and infects cancerous tumors and then delivers genetic material that prompts cancers to secrete a biomarker and reveal their presence.
Cancer
May 11, 2011 |
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