
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
