No child or young athlete should be subjected to genetic testing to spot sporting talent or boost performance, concludes an international panel of experts in a consensus statement published in the British Journal of Sports ...
Nov 17, 2015
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A new publication from scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai offers a glimpse of precision medicine in action, with a massive data analysis project that identified clinically and genetically distinct subtypes ...
Oct 28, 2015
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A study published today in Genome Medicine describes how researchers at Children's Mercy Kansas City cut in half the time needed for rapid whole-genome sequencing and genetic diagnosis in critically-ill infants, called STAT-Seq. ...
Sep 29, 2015
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Until now, there hasn't been a fast, efficient way to broadly screen for viral infections. A breakthrough genetic testing method promises change this situation by giving clinicians a powerful new tool to detect and sequence ...
Sep 22, 2015
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For children with rare, aggressive and advanced cancer, precision medicine may help doctors determine their best treatment options, a new study finds.
Sep 1, 2015
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Evolution has altered the human genome over hundreds of thousands of years—and now humans can do it in a matter of months.
Jul 22, 2015
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Millions of genetic variants have been discovered over the last 25 years, but interpreting the clinical impact of the differences in a person's genome remains a major bottleneck in genomic medicine. In a paper published in ...
May 27, 2015
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Today's physicians require an increasingly comprehensive understanding of the principles of genetics and genomics in order to make informed clinical decisions. Scientific discoveries are bringing genomic technology directly ...
Feb 12, 2015
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Personalized medicine uses methods of molecular analysis, especially genetic sequencing and transcription, in order to simultaneously identify genetic mutations to evaluate each individual's risk of contracting a given disease. ...
Dec 1, 2014
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(HealthDay)—Knowledge of genetic colorectal cancer (CRC) risk does not influence screening behavior, according to research published in the Oct. 21 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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