A new scoring system that compares the genetic matching of kidney donors and recipients could help improve predictions of transplant success, according to a study published in PLOS Computational Biology.
Sep 29, 2016
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Precision medicine, which utilizes genetic and molecular techniques to individually tailor treatments and preventative measures for chronic diseases, has become a major national project, with President Obama launching the ...
Sep 27, 2016
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A person's DNA sequence can provide a lot of information about how genes are turned on and off, but new research out of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine suggests the 3-D structure DNA forms as it crams into ...
Sep 20, 2016
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Researchers from MIPT, the Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, the Institute for Energy Problems of Chemical Physics, and the Research Institute of Physico-Chemical Medicine have presented an algorithm to detect mutant proteins ...
Aug 30, 2016
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Vice President Joe Biden unveiled a public database for clinical data on cancer on Monday that aims to help researchers and doctors better tailor new treatments to individuals.
Jun 6, 2016
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A new computational study published in the International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications has shown how mutations that give rise to drug resistance occur in a form of cancer known as acute myeloid leukemia ...
Aug 4, 2015
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Professor Ryan Lister from University of Western Australia is using big data to examine DNA in new ways that could greatly increase the understanding of the human body and improve agricultural techniques.
Apr 20, 2015
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Thyroid hormones have important and diverse roles in human health and regulate metabolic rate. Thyroid disease is common (affecting 5-10 per cent of the population) and synthetic thyroid hormones are one of the commonest ...
Mar 9, 2015
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Investigators at Nationwide Children's Hospital have developed an analysis "pipeline" that slashes the time it takes to search a person's genome for disease-causing variations from weeks to hours. An article describing the ...
Jan 30, 2015
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Researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute have received a grant for up to $1 million from the Simons Foundation to develop a comprehensive map of human genetic variation. The Human Genome Variation Map will be a ...
Jan 13, 2015
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