University of Oregon researchers are filling in gaps in our understanding of the formation and growth the colon, a crucial part of the digestive system, by being among the first to apply modern molecular biology tools to ...
Dec 6, 2023
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Polygenic risk scores, which estimate a person's disease risk based on thousands or millions of common genetic variants, perform poorly in screening and prediction of common diseases such as heart disease, according to a ...
Oct 17, 2023
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Researchers at St George's, University of London have discovered a technique that can kill skin cancer cells while minimizing damage to healthy cells. The findings are published in the journal Biology Open.
Sep 6, 2023
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Identifying people at high risk of chronic disease means that they can be targeted with prevention measures before they become sick. Polygenic risk scores, where genomic information alone is used to assess the risk of developing ...
Jun 9, 2023
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Globally, human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the sixth most common cancer and the fourth leading cause of cancer-related mortality. The worldwide incidences of HCC have been on the rise in recent decades. Unfortunately, ...
May 10, 2023
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By analyzing tumors in unprecedented depth, the Tumor Profiler project represents an important step along the road toward personalized cancer treatments. And the team have already recorded initial successes: In a study focusing ...
Mar 28, 2023
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In the first broad comparison of pediatric and adult cancer, researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have analyzed 13,000 individual cancers and built an "atlas" of pediatric cancer using a novel machine-learning ...
Mar 21, 2023
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People with colorectal cancer, the fourth most common cancer in the U.S., are often prescribed unnecessary chemotherapy after their cancer is completely gone.
Dec 29, 2022
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A new study published by experts in Singapore suggests that an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that identifies patient-specific drug combinations can help those whose lymphomas have relapsed.
Dec 16, 2022
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The most comprehensive study of kidney cancer at single-cell level has discovered a potential drug target to treat renal cell carcinoma, a cancer with a high mortality rate that is hard to detect. Researchers from the Wellcome ...
Nov 25, 2022
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