A simple blood test that can accurately diagnose active tuberculosis could make it easier and cheaper to control a disease that kills 1.5 million people every year.
Feb 19, 2016
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Researchers at Duke Health are fine-tuning a test that can determine whether a respiratory illness is caused by infection from a virus or bacteria so that antibiotics can be more precisely prescribed.
Jan 20, 2016
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Scientists have discovered a genetic signature that implicates a key mechanism in the immune system as a driving force for a type of childhood leukaemia.
Jan 12, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have discovered a unique immune gene signature that can predict the presence of microscopic lymph node-like structures in metastatic melanoma. The presence of these ...
Oct 25, 2012
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A research team pursuing one of the most commonly altered genes in cancer has laid a critical foundation for understanding this gene that could point the way toward developing drugs against it. A recent study of cancer genetics ...
Apr 16, 2012
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A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that 45 genes may play a crucial role in the prognosis of patients with adrenal cancer. The findings, published in the journal ESMO Open, give hope for a better diagnostic tool ...
Jun 27, 2024
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As the effectiveness of radiotherapy varies greatly between tumors, finding gene signatures to predict the radiation response could better guide clinicians to personalize treatment plans.
Feb 2, 2024
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Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that boosts the immune system to fight cancer by helping it to recognize and attack tumor cells. While this therapeutic strategy continues to revolutionize the treatment of an increasing ...
Oct 11, 2023
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Researchers from Turku Bioscience Center and InFLAMES Flagship at the University of Turku in Finland, have identified a gene expression signature that can predict the progression of type 1 diabetes.
May 29, 2023
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Recently, a research group from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and The Second Hospital of Anhui Medical University dissected, for the first time, the somatic mutation profile ...
May 4, 2023
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