(HealthDay)—Women diagnosed with breast cancer between two routine screenings have an increased risk for other types of cancer, a new study finds.
Oct 22, 2019
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In 2017, Baylor Genetics introduced the first clinical non-invasive prenatal multigene sequencing screen, PreSeek, to the commercial market. The Baylor College of Medicine and Baylor Genetics team that developed the technology ...
Jan 29, 2019
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Northwestern Medicine scientists have used an innovative gene editing technique to identify the genes that may lead to Parkinson's disease after exposure to paraquat, a commonly-used herbicide.
Oct 23, 2017
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Extending noninvasive prenatal screening to all 24 human chromosomes can detect genetic disorders that may explain miscarriage and abnormalities during pregnancy, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes ...
Aug 30, 2017
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(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers at Stanford University has found a gene that increases the rate of maternal aneuploidy in embryos. In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes how they used ...
(Medical Xpress)—There is a new contender in the field of gene discovery, and it's giving knockout mice a run for their money. Researchers at The Rockefeller University have shown that a new technique using RNA interference ...
Aug 15, 2013
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Protein production or translation is tightly coupled to a highly conserved stress response that cancer cells rely on for survival and proliferation, according to Whitehead Institute researchers. In mouse models of cancer, ...
Jul 18, 2013
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(Medical Xpress)—Like Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease, spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease caused when a toxic protein accumulates inside nerve ...
Jul 17, 2013
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Equipped with the zebrafish genome, researchers have designed a method to assay the function of each and every gene and to explore the effects genetic variation has on zebrafish. So far the team has generated one or more ...
Apr 17, 2013
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A single genetic defect on the X chromosome that can result in a wide array of conditions—from learning and emotional difficulties to primary ovarian insufficiency in women and tremors in middle-aged men—occurs at a much ...
Dec 20, 2012
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