Fanconi anemia (FA) is a genetic disease affecting small children characterized by bone-marrow failure, developmental abnormalities and predisposition to multiple forms of cancer. The molecular mechanisms behind FA are inherited ...
Oct 14, 2020
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The saying "God doesn't play dice" is meant to suggest that nothing happens by chance. On the other hand, cancer seems like the ultimate happenstance: Don't we all have a 43-year-old, vegan, triathlete friend fighting cancer? ...
Jun 20, 2019
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A rapid test that detects all known COVID-19 variants, including the highly transmissible omicron variant, has been developed by researchers at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
Jan 26, 2022
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Mutations in genes essential to survival are behind so-called orphan diseases, explaining in part why these diseases are rare and often deadly, according to a study appearing in The American Journal of Human Genetics.
Jun 9, 2011
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An international research team led by Dr. Ana Guadaño at the Alberto Sols Biomedical Research Institute (IIBM, a combined CSIC-UAM center) and involving the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), used CRISPR gene editing ...
Dec 12, 2022
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) mainly affects the older population. Recent research found early disease signs in cell culture models of early human brain development, raising the possibility that the disease has its origins much ...
Jun 22, 2023
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The work of molecular biologist Joseph M. Miano, Ph.D., and clinician Craig Benson, M.D., seems worlds apart: Miano helps head the Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute and Benson is chief resident of the combined Internal ...
Aug 11, 2011
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Testing for genetic risk factors could improve treatment for myeloma - a cancer of the blood and bone marrow - by helping doctors identify patients at risk of developing more aggressive disease.
Aug 17, 2015
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Among patients with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer treated with an aromatase inhibitor plus palbociclib (Ibrance), those who displayed a rising ESR1 mutation detected in their blood before disease progression doubled ...
Dec 9, 2021
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Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the leading genetic cause of death in children under 2, with no treatment other than supportive care. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at Children's Hospital ...
Jun 6, 2011
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