A new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows how certain RNA molecules control the repair of damaged DNA in cancer cells, a discovery that could eventually give rise to better cancer treatments. The study is published ...
Feb 23, 2022
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Killing cancer cells without affecting surrounding normal cells is the most desirable approach for targeted cancer therapy. However, it cannot be easily achieved due to the similarities in the properties between normal and ...
Feb 22, 2022
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An international team of scientists has used atlases of the human brain informed by genetics to identify hundreds of genomic loci. Loci is plural for locus, and in genetics indicates the physical location of a gene or variant ...
Feb 7, 2022
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The stretches of DNA that differ from person to person, called variants, are a major part of what makes us unique, but they can also put us at greater risk of disease. Although we can currently spell out between 80% and 90% ...
Feb 7, 2022
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Scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) believe it may be possible to prevent DNA changes driven by two proteins highly active in leukemia and other cancers. They ...
Feb 4, 2022
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Reliably predicting whether meningioma, the most common primary brain tumor, will recur or remain benign has not been easy. In this study, published in Science Advances, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan ...
Feb 2, 2022
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Pap tests have long been used to detect cervical cancer early, but preliminary research suggests that cervical cells collected during those tests could also be used to catch other cancers, including deadly ovarian tumors.
Feb 2, 2022
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A new analysis has uncovered a potential link between higher prostate cancer risk and genetic variants associated with higher bloodstream levels of the cholesterol-transporting molecule lipoprotein A. Anna Ioannidou of Imperial ...
Jan 27, 2022
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Different diseases have different methods for testing if a person has the disease or not. immuneML, a new open source machine learning platform, can potentially look for a lot of diseases in just one blood sample.
Jan 26, 2022
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Imagine getting a positive result on a genetic test. The doctor tells you that you have a "pathogenic genetic variant," or a DNA sequence that is known to raise the chances for getting a disease like breast cancer or diabetes. ...
Jan 25, 2022
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