Tag: Personalized Medicine
New ‘liquid biopsy’ blood test improves breast cancer diagnostics: Test could help avoid unnecessary surgeries; enable physicians to continuously monitor cancer
Gene linked to severe liver damage: Expression of AEBP1 correlates with severity of liver fibrosis; may provide therapeutic target
Geneticists continue to unravel how genes impact drug use and addiction: Study assesses naturally occurring variation in drug self-administration
New immunodeficiency disease discovered: Scientists find the answer in a single gene mutation
Algorithms predicting gene interactions could make cancer treatments more effective
Working to advance radiation therapy for children with cancer: Novel software to improve accuracy of cancer treatment
Novel strategy hits ‘reset button’ for disease-causing genetic duplications
Human iPSC-derived MSCs from aged individuals acquire a rejuvenation signature
Patient shielding provides negligible benefits while increasing risks
Unjamming the genome after DNA damage: A gene regulatory multi-tool has yet another function
New protein for gene editing may improve disease treatment, sustainable manufacturing: Innovation could change how gene editing is approached in the future
Nurse work environments linked to outcomes
Advanced paternal age increases risk of early-onset schizophrenia in offspring
Promising results for new acute porphyria treatment
Identical twins light the way for new genetic cause of arthritis
Genes reveal clues about people’s potential life expectancy
Worrisome statistics around medical cannabis users operating vehicles: More public education and guidelines are needed to increase marijuana users’ understanding of cannabis-related driving impairment
New discoveries predict ability to forecast dementia from single molecule
DNA structure impacts rate and accuracy of DNA synthesis
New, more accessible staging system developed to predict survival for patients with AL Amyloidosis
Tracking down microRNA candidates that can contribute to disease
Cytokine levels could predict immunotherapy problems
Preventing sudden cardiac death with genome editing
Making gene therapy delivery safer and more efficient: Inconsistency in the molecular makeup of vectors is a key concern in scaling up gene therapy production for patients
How many people carry rare disease genetic risk variants?
Smarter data analysis strategies will improve infertility treatment in the future
The metabolome: A way to measure obesity and health beyond BMI
Genomic study brings us closer to precision medicine for type 2 diabetes: Analysis reveals disease’s complexity, suggests potential clinical subtypes defined by genetics and physiology