In findings with potentially important implications for cervical cancer screening, scientists at the Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center (MECC) have developed a test for detecting a type of cervical cancer that Pap tests often ...
Sep 7, 2023
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A large team of medical researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S., working with pair of colleagues from the University of Ljubljana, in Slovenia, has sequenced the genomes of several hundred samples of ...
A large team of medical scientists affiliated with a host of institutions in Nigeria and the U.S., has found that it is possible to use metagenomics to identify a host of viruses in real-world plasma samples. In their paper ...
Aug. 1, 2023 would have been Henrietta Lacks's 103rd birthday. It was also the day the Lacks family reached a settlement with Thermo Fisher Scientific, the biotech company that used and profited from her "HeLa" cells.
Aug 4, 2023
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Thanks to machine learning algorithms, short pieces of DNA floating in the bloodstream of cancer patients can help doctors diagnose specific types of cancer and choose the most effective treatment for a patient.
Aug 2, 2023
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A study presented today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery's (SNIS) 20th Annual Meeting indicated that it may be possible to use a less invasive technique to identify the gene mutations responsible for some arteriovenous ...
Aug 2, 2023
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) School of Medicine researchers Christopher Sayed, MD, Yun Li, Ph.D., and Karen Mohlke, Ph.D., discovered the genomic locations that contribute to the genetic risk of a chronic ...
Jul 27, 2023
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A common genetic variant explains why some people are asymptomatic after being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, according to our recently published study in the journal Nature.
Jul 23, 2023
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Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are vastly underrepresented in genetic research on dementia. Of the 45,000 participants in U.S. Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers, for example, just 17 are from this cohort.
Jul 18, 2023
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As a psychiatric disorder with onset in adulthood, schizophrenia is thought to be triggered by some combination of environmental factors and genetics, although the exact cause is still not fully understood.
Jul 6, 2023
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