Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in America have carried out a genetic study of plague caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis in Uganda. Although Uganda has one of the highest incidences of ...
Feb 11, 2016
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Identifying mutations in the control switches of genes can be a surprisingly accurate way to predict a person's medical history, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found.
Feb 4, 2016
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New research published in Nature has shown how genome sequencing can be rapidly established to monitor outbreaks.
Feb 3, 2016
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Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Yokohama, Japan, in collaboration with researchers from a number of hospitals around Japan, have found two variations in a gene called ORAI1, one ...
Jan 20, 2016
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In the first study to run a genome-wide analysis of Short Tandem Repeats (STRs) in gene expression, a large team of computational geneticists led by investigators from Columbia Engineering and the New York Genome Center have ...
Dec 7, 2015
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Researchers from Cardiff University, the University of Liverpool and Swansea University presented a new study revealing that people with drug-resistant juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) have a 10 percent chance of having ...
Dec 6, 2015
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(HealthDay)—Hormonal status seems to interact with genetic variants to influence cardiovascular phenotypes, especially those within the innate immunity pathway related to carotid artery intima-medial thickness (CIMT), according ...
Nov 13, 2015
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There's a typical "career" for some allergic people, and it starts very early on the skin: babies develop atopic dermatitis, food allergies may follow, then comes asthma and later on hay fever. A group of scientists led by ...
Nov 6, 2015
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Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences have worked with a number of universities and hospitals in Japan to use gene maps in the Japanese population to identify three genes associated with peripheral ...
Oct 21, 2015
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Genetic polymorphisms associated with cancer progression lead to variations in gene expression and may serve as prognostic markers for lung cancer. Researchers at the Hiroshima University and Saitama Medical University found ...
Oct 5, 2015
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