Today, an international group of leading scientists publish recommendations for updating existing standards for determining the disease-causing potential of genomic variants, harnessing insights from Genomics England rare ...
Jul 19, 2022
0
11
Researchers have created a liquid biopsy test, which uses two circulating proteins, to test for major liver diseases. The test was found to be highly accurate, sensitive, and specific for both NASH and liver fibrosis. For ...
Jul 14, 2022
0
14
Lung cancer is the most common cancer in the world, with 2.2 million new cases and around 1.8 million deaths in 2020 alone. Although knowledge about the disease has improved considerably, and new therapeutic strategies can ...
Jul 5, 2022
0
10
When patients are admitted to an intensive-care unit, health practitioners provide treatment based on the signs and symptoms they observe. This approach does not necessarily include understanding the definite causes behind ...
Jun 30, 2022
0
25
It's a device most patients will recognize from their most recent doctor's appointment: a small plastic clip attached to their finger that measures the levels of oxygen in their blood.
Jun 29, 2022
0
117
A new algorithm developed by researchers at Columbia University can analyze thousands of variants across the genome and estimate a person's risk of developing chronic kidney disease—and it works in people of African, Asian, ...
Jun 16, 2022
0
123
Cognitive impairments, like those that eventually lead to Alzheimer's disease, have large social and economic impacts and often decrease people's quality of life. They're also relatively underdiagnosed, partly because their ...
Jun 15, 2022
0
11
Surface sampling for SARS-CoV-2 RNA has shown promise to detect the exposure of environments to infected individuals shedding the virus who would not otherwise be detected. Now a new study, published in mSystems shows that ...
Jun 14, 2022
0
12
An investigative stem cell-based therapy called PEC-Direct, designed to act as a replacement pancreas, has the potential to provide blood sugar control in patients with high-risk type 1 diabetes, suggests a clinical study ...
Jun 11, 2022
0
16
By age 44, endometriosis affects around one in nine women and people assigned female at birth in Australia.
Jun 6, 2022
0
2
