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Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we evolved. But some of the most changeable regions of our DNA have been off-limits to researchers—until ...
Apr 23, 2025
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Liver cancer can arise spontaneously from healthy liver tissue. Recently, however, researchers have discovered an increasing correlation between some liver cancers and non-viral chronic liver disease (CLD).
Apr 15, 2025
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Investigators from Mass General Brigham and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have developed STITCHR, a new gene editing tool that can insert therapeutic genes into specific locations without causing unwanted mutations. ...
Apr 9, 2025
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In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers at the Beijing Institute of Stem Cells and Regeneration (BISCRM) and the Institute of Zoology (IOZ) have cracked the code of the notorious FTO gene, reconciling its ...
Mar 7, 2025
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RNA sequencing has emerged as a powerful supplement to DNA sequencing for Mendelian disease diagnosis, but clinical translation of diagnostic RNA-seq has not been widely achieved. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine's ...
Mar 4, 2025
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Research by UMass Chan Medical School scientists Sharon Cantor, Ph.D., and Jenna M. Whalen, Ph.D., poses a new explanation for how cancer-fighting drugs attack and destroy BRCA1 and BRCA2 tumor cells.
Feb 25, 2025
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Cancer arises when your cells grow uncontrollably and refuse to die when they should. Normally, your body is equipped with regulatory processes to prevent this chaos. One such mechanism involves a protein called p53. Often ...
Feb 20, 2025
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Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a promising new approach that could be used to treat a rare and complex class of genetic diseases caused by defects in a relatively large region of the genome.
Feb 13, 2025
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Liposuction and plastic surgery aren't often mentioned in the same breath as cancer. But they are the inspiration for a new approach to treating cancer that uses engineered fat cells to deprive tumors of nutrition.
Feb 4, 2025
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Australian cancer researchers are the first to establish a next-generation gene-editing tool for modeling and interrogating human disease.
Jan 30, 2025
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