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Parkinson's & Movement disorders

Researchers ID cluster of genes in blood that predict Parkinson's

Because there is currently no laboratory test that can diagnose Parkinson's disease, it is practically impossible to detect those individuals who are in the earliest stages of the disease. As a result, Parkinson's disease ...

Oncology & Cancer

Platform enables comparative research on cancerous tumors

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology's Rappaport Faculty of Medicine have developed an innovative algorithm that detects an uninterrupted common denominator in multidimensional data gathered from tumors ...

Genetics

Free online software helps speed up genetic discoveries

DNA microarray analysis, a high-speed method by which the expression of thousands of genes can be analyzed simultaneously, was invented in the late 1980s and developed in the 1990s. Genetic researchers used a glass slide ...

Medical research

Amniotic sac membrane could be source for human eggs

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology say cells from the amniotic membrane part of the placenta normally discarded after a woman gives birth could one day be a source for human eggs. The first-of-its-kind ...

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