Oncology & Cancer
New tests may help combat melanoma, expert says
(HealthDay)—Genetic and molecular tests can be valuable in helping to diagnose and treat deadly melanoma skin cancer, a dermatologist says.
Mar 4, 2016
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Autism spectrum disorders
Newer genetic testing methods may provide benefit for children with suspected autism
The use of two newer genetic testing technologies (chromosomal microarray analysis and whole-exome sequencing) among children with autism spectrum disorder may help identify genetic mutations potentially linked to the disorder, ...
Sep 1, 2015
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Biomedical technology
New artificial skin functions like natural skin
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) have developed an improved human-skin equivalent that reproduces traction-force balance in the lateral direction, a property that controls the structure ...
Oct 30, 2020
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Genetics
Startle disease: Further key gene variants discovered
Research funded by children's charity Action Medical Research has uncovered new gene variants in startle disease, a rare condition in newborn babies. Understanding the genetic causes should lead to new genetic tests and is ...
May 30, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
A blood test that screens for multiple cancers at once promises to boost early detection
Detecting cancer early before it spreads throughout the body can be lifesaving. This is why doctors recommend regular screening for several common cancer types, using a variety of methods. Colonoscopies, for example, screen ...
Nov 1, 2022
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Health informatics
AI model proactively predicts if a COVID-19 test might be positive or not
COVID-19 and its latest omicron strains continue to cause infections across the country as well as globally. Serology (blood) and molecular tests are the two most commonly used methods for rapid COVID-19 testing. Because ...
Dec 13, 2022
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
New studies support blood test for early detection of Alzheimer's disease
In three recent publications in Molecular Psychiatry, Brain and JAMA Neurology researchers from the University of Gothenburg provide convincing evidence that an in-house developed blood test for Alzheimer's disease can detect ...
Jan 13, 2021
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Medications
Antibiotics can inhibit skin lymphoma
New research from the LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center at the University of Copenhagen shows, surprisingly, that antibiotics inhibit cancer in the skin in patients with rare type of lymphoma.
Jul 25, 2019
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Genetics
What's missing from current methods for genetic screening of sperm donors?
U.S. sperm banks perform genetic testing to screen for and disqualify carriers of a limited number of recessive disease mutations, but more comprehensive and affordable DNA-based screening methods are now available that can ...
Apr 26, 2016
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Genetics
AMP reports on possibilities, challenges, and applications of next-generation sequencing
Bethesda, MD, October 18, 2012 The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) published the report of the Whole Genome Analysis (WGA) Working Group of the AMP Clinical Practice Committee in the November 2012 issue of The Journal ...
Oct 18, 2012
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