Early detection and treatment of hereditary transthyretin-related amyloidosis via genetic counseling are crucial. Yet, not all at-risk individuals seek genetic counseling, and management for presymptomatic carriers remains ...
Jun 13, 2024
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A large study by researchers at Stanford Medicine has found that the risk of secondary blood cancers after CAR-T cell therapy—a cell-based cancer treatment that exploded on the scene in 2017 as a treatment for intractable ...
Jun 12, 2024
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For nearly two decades, how kidney cancer becomes resistant to rapalog drugs has baffled the scientific community. Now a study by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center's Kidney Cancer Program sheds light. Published ...
Jun 12, 2024
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Approximately one in every 20,000 to 40,000 children born in Japan and about one in every 100,000 throughout the world bear a mutation in the WRN gene. This gene is responsible for producing the Werner protein, which belongs ...
Jun 12, 2024
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Pericytes, the multifunctional cells that work within the walls of capillaries, have been a subject of focus in the study of vascular development, cerebral blood flow, cancer, and neurodevelopment diseases.
Jun 12, 2024
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Researchers have identified inherited genetic variants that may predict the loss of one copy of a woman's two X chromosomes as she ages, a phenomenon known as mosaic loss of chromosome X, or mLOX. These genetic variants may ...
Jun 12, 2024
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VEXAS syndrome is a rare, adult-onset, life-threatening autoinflammatory disease caused by a genetic mutation. The pathophysiology is still unknown, but new work presented at the 2024 congress of EULAR—The European Alliance ...
Jun 12, 2024
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Even before we are born and begin experiencing the sensations of daily life—a soft shirt on our arms, for example, or a hard tabletop under our fingertips—humans begin to form the senses needed to survive.
Jun 12, 2024
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Using an advanced artificial intelligence tool, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified rare coding variants in 17 genes that shed light on the molecular basis of coronary artery disease ...
Jun 11, 2024
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Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a health condition characterized by a group of risk factors: high blood pressure, high blood sugar, unhealthy cholesterol levels, and abdominal fat. These factors increase the risk of heart disease, ...
Jun 11, 2024
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