Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine used a novel genetic sequencing technology to identify the genetic cause of—and a treatment for—a previously unknown severe auto inflammatory syndrome affecting an 18-year-old ...
Aug 4, 2020
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A new research paper titled "Determination of genetic predisposition to early breast cancer in women of Kazakh ethnicity" has been published in Oncotarget.
Nov 22, 2023
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The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), a global, molecular diagnostic professional society, today published consensus recommendations for the use of in silico approaches for validating Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) ...
Oct 18, 2022
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A hitherto unknown antibiotic-resistant bacteria species, in the same family as E. coli and Salmonella spp., has been found and classified in Sweden. The proposed taxonomic name of the species—the first of the new genus—is ...
Jan 21, 2020
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How do scientists detect new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19? The answer is a process called DNA sequencing.
Dec 21, 2021
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A study conducted in Serrana, a small town in São Paulo state used as a model for COVID-19 vaccination in Brazil, shows that mass vaccination reduced the severe case and death rates even while the gamma and delta variants ...
Dec 21, 2022
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Menstruation is a reproductive quirk that humans share with only a few other mammals. But even stranger is the fact that women stop menstruating when they have a whole third of their lives left to live.
Jun 10, 2013
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A new study has increased the understanding of an increasingly common complication of advanced breast cancer. Using a novel approach, researchers have uncovered details of secondary breast cancer in the brain and spinal cord ...
Dec 14, 2023
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A new drug designed to work on cancers with an altered BRAF gene has shown promise in an early patient trial presented at the 32nd EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, which is taking place ...
Oct 26, 2020
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The use of next-generation gene sequencing in newborns in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) may improve the diagnosis of rare diseases and deliver results more quickly to anxious families, according to new research in ...
May 30, 2016
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