Genetics
IBM's Watson to help in brain cancer research (Update)
IBM is teaming up with the New York Genome Center to help fight brain cancer.
Mar 19, 2014
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Genetics
Personalized medicine has finally arrived—or has it?
As the price for decoding a person's DNA keeps dropping, expectations for personalized medicine based on specific genetic profiling rise. But translating an individual's genetic data into finely tailored medical treatments ...
Feb 26, 2014
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Genetics
New disease gene discovery sheds light on cause of bone marrow failure
The study, published in The American Journal of Human Genetics, detected and identified a new disease gene (ERCC6L2). In its normal form, the gene plays a key role in protecting DNA from damaging agents, but when the gene ...
Feb 6, 2014
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Genetics
Important discovery for the diagnosis of genetic diseases
A study conducted by Marie Kmita's team at the IRCM, in collaboration with Josée Dostie at McGill University, shows the importance of the chromatin architecture in controlling the activity of genes, especially those required ...
Jan 16, 2014
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Genetics
Novel biomarker approach suggests new avenues to improve schizophrenia disease management
Environmental effects of events such as oxygen deprivation and infections may be preserved as markers in blood that are associated to schizophrenia, according to an international study led by the Virginia Commonwealth University ...
Jan 9, 2014
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Medical research
Report answers questions about the human microbiome and its role in health, obesity
The human microbiome, the collection of trillions of microbes living in and on the human body, is not random, and scientists believe that it plays a role in many basic life processes. As science continues to explore and better ...
Jan 9, 2014
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Genetics
How large is the alphabet of DNA?
New sequencing technology is transforming epigenetics research, and could greatly improve understanding of cancer, embryo formation, stem cells and brain function.
Dec 12, 2013
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Genetics
Researchers identify fundamental differences between human cancers and genetically engineered mouse models of cancer
Researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA have taken a closer look at existing mouse models of cancer, specifically comparing them to human cancer samples. These genetically engineered mouse ...
Dec 5, 2013
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Deciphering the DNA of Alzheimer's patients
(HealthDay)—Data that details every gene in the DNA of 410 people with Alzheimer's disease can now be studied by researchers, the U.S. National Institutes of Health announced this week.
Dec 4, 2013
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Genetics
Easy access to genetic testing
Frederick Sanger, who died recently at the age of 95, won two Nobel prizes in chemistry for his methods for sequencing proteins and DNA. Proteins were of more direct interest to many people because many disease-causing mutations ...
Dec 4, 2013
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