News tagged with genetic screening

Using genetic variants to improve PSA testing technique and reduce biopsies

With the help of genetics, prostate specific antigen (PSA) screenings may become more accurate and reduce the number of unnecessary prostate biopsies, according to a new study from Northwestern Medicine.

Cancer Apr 24, 2013 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Scientists identify important regulator for synapse stability and plasticity

(Medical Xpress)—Using the fruit fly as a model organism, neurobiologists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research have identified the L1-type CAM neuroglian as an important regulator ...

Neuroscience Apr 25, 2013 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |