FDNA, a leader in artificial intelligence and precision medicine, in collaboration with a team of influential scientists and researchers published a milestone study on the use of facial analysis in detecting genetic disorders. ...
Jan 9, 2019
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Researchers studying Alzheimer's disease have created an approach to classify patients with Alzheimer's disease, a finding that may open the door for personalized treatments.
Dec 5, 2018
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Facing incurable breast cancer at age 55, MaryAnne DiCanto put her faith in "precision medicine—in which doctors try to match patients with drugs that target the genetic mutations in their tumors. She underwent repeated ...
Sep 21, 2018
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Individualised therapies that target the specific genetic features of tumours have the potential to transform cancer diagnosis, treatment and care. However, several challenges still need to be overcome before these approaches ...
Sep 11, 2018
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(HealthDay)—Use of online genealogy data for solving crimes raises complex ethical issues, according to an article published online May 29 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Jul 2, 2018
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Children who are born severely ill or who develop serious illness in the first few weeks of life are often difficult to diagnose, with considerable implications for their short and longer-term care. Whole genome sequencing ...
Jun 18, 2018
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The University of Toronto's David McMillen and his research team are creating a new life form to ward off disease – a bespoke, gut-dwelling microbe engineered to release drugs when needed.
Jun 12, 2018
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Researchers in the US have used genetic techniques to slow the progression of Alzheimer's in mice that show features of the disease. The study, which centered around a protein called BACE1, was reported today in the Journal ...
Feb 15, 2018
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U.S. health officials on Tuesday approved the nation's first gene therapy for an inherited disease, a treatment that improves the sight of patients with a rare form of blindness. It marks another major advance for the emerging ...
Dec 19, 2017
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A team of researchers with members from the U.S., Australia and Switzerland has found that male and female humans are evolving in slightly different ways. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
