Keck Medicine of USC researchers in the lab of Peggy Farnham were key participants in the recent publication of a landmark collection of scientific papers related to mapping the DNA and histone modifications in human epigenomes ...
Mar 12, 2015
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A panel of Food and Drug Administration advisers has narrowly backed an experimental blood test that uses patients' DNA to help screen for colon cancer.
Mar 26, 2014
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The Food and Drug Administration is weighing the benefits and risks of two experimental colon cancer screening tests which use DNA from a patient's stool to detect dangerous tumors and growths.
Mar 24, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—Growing up in Iowa, Dr. Eric Mendenhall says biology always "came really easily" to him. But other than becoming a doctor, which he wasn't interested in, he didn't know what to do with a degree in the field. ...
Jan 6, 2014
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Scientists at A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have successfully developed a method to map the epigenome using 100 times fewer cells than was previously possible. The discovery, published in the journal Developmental ...
Feb 11, 2013
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Melbourne scientists have discovered how female steroid hormones can make dramatic changes to the genetic material in breast cells, changes that could potentially lead to breast cancer.
Jan 31, 2013
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Dartmouth scientists showed that more than half of all the SNPs associated with breast cancer risk are located in distant regions and bound by FOXA1, a protein required for estrogen receptor-α (ER) function according to ...
Jan 23, 2013
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Researchers of the University of Oviedo have contributed to decipher the first epigenomes of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Carlos López-Otín and two members of his team: Xose ...
Oct 22, 2012
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Changes in the epigenome, a structure that controls the function of genes, were found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
Apr 20, 2012
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A good helping of Carl Sagan and David Attenborough got me interested in science and the natural world as a child.
Oct 29, 2014
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