A genetic variant may explain why some people with asthma do not respond well to inhaled corticosteroids, the most widely prescribed medicine for long-term asthma control. Researchers found that asthma patients who have two ...
Sep 26, 2011
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A new study of the genetic makeup, or genome, of Ewing sarcoma, a rare cancer that strikes children, teenagers, and young adults, has produced multiple discoveries: a previously unknown sarcoma subtype, genetic factors related ...
Aug 9, 2012
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The researchers used the most advanced genomic and proteomic technologies available to tease out their proteogenomic characteristics, defined as genetic makeup (genomics), chemical modifications to DNA (epigenomics), messenger ...
Oct 31, 2019
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In a first of its kind study that shows environmental conditions can be more influential than genetics, Virginia Tech researchers have found that the cost of food — not someone's genetic makeup—is a major factor in ...
Oct 23, 2012
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The immune response to the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB) varies between patients of different ethnic origin, raising important implications for the development of tests to diagnose and monitor treatment for the ...
Jul 4, 2013
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Methadone—long used to treat pain and addiction to heroin and other opioid drugs—can be lethal itself if it lingers too long in the body. Although people are known to metabolize methadone differently, researchers have ...
Oct 22, 2015
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Hirschsprung disease—a rare condition where the failure of gut nerves to develop before birth leads to impaired bowel contractions that prevent infants from passing stool—is more predictable from an individual's genetic ...
Apr 11, 2019
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Researchers from Barts Cancer Institute (BCI) at Queen Mary University of London, the Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine, and the University of Milan have identified a novel role for a cancer-causing gene in controlling ...
Sep 27, 2022
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A Mayo Clinic researcher, along with his collaborators, has shown that an individual's genomic makeup and diet interact to determine which microbes exist and how they act in the host intestine. The study was modeled in germ-free ...
Sep 25, 2013
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A common intestinal virus, enterovirus, in early childhood may be a trigger for later coeliac disease in children at increased genetic risk of the condition, finds a small study published in The BMJ today.
Feb 13, 2019
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