A new ultra-rapid genome sequencing approach developed by Stanford Medicine scientists and their collaborators was used to diagnose rare genetic diseases in an average of eight hours—a feat that's nearly unheard of in standard ...
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Harnessing the power of genomics to find risk factors for major diseases or search for relatives relies on the costly and time-consuming ability to analyze huge numbers of genomes. A team co-led by a Johns Hopkins University ...
Jan 12, 2022
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Over the last decade and a half, the biomedical field has witnessed an explosion in the volume and variety of genomic and health-related data. On the one hand, this has been an incredible boon for advancing human health; ...
Dec 14, 2021
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Genomics England, a government owned company, recently announced a pilot program of whole genome sequencing to screen for genetic diseases in 200,000 healthy seeming newborns.
Nov 17, 2021
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A large study led by Lund University in Sweden has identified a protein in the blood that could predict type 2 diabetes up to nineteen years before the onset of the disease. The study is published in Nature Communications.
Nov 11, 2021
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The severe outbreak of COVID-19 in Delhi, India, in 2021 showed not only that the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 is extremely transmissible but that it can infect individuals previously infected by a different variant of the ...
Oct 14, 2021
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Many variants in the human genome have been linked to type 2 diabetes, but because most do not lie within genes that code for proteins, it's unclear how they might cause disease. Now an international team, including investigators ...
Oct 12, 2021
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Data sets that are biased by having too many genomes from people with European ancestry can still be applied to other ancestry groups to predict their risk of developing breast and prostate cancer. Lars Fritsche of the University ...
Sep 16, 2021
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By analyzing genomic data from more than 30,000 people, an international team has revealed thousands of new regulatory regions that control disease-linked genes—a resource that is now available to researchers worldwide.
Sep 2, 2021
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A person's genetics may hold the key to early intervention in cardiovascular disease, leading to better outcomes in patient care. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center and Baylor cardiologists ...
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