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Published on August 30, 2016
Investigators at the University of Exeter Medical School have recently published data that combines sequence information with measures of gene regulation in schizophrenia patients and matched controls in order to better understand genetic variants and casual gene function in the disease pathogenesis. The findings from the study—An integrated genetic-epigenetic analysis…
Published on August 29, 2016
Scientists at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center have published new evidence for RNA-based biomarkers that can distinguish between normal, aging hematopoietic stem cells and leukemic stem cells associated with secondary acute myeloid leukemia (sAML). The new study—“RNA Splicing Modulation Selectively Impairs Leukemia…
Published on August 24, 2016
The global biochip market, driven by high demand from proteomic and genomic applications, along with growing adoption of personalized medicine, is expected to reach $25.8 billion by 2024 according to new research published by consulting firm Grand View Research. According to the report, other factors affecting the growth of the…
Published on August 23, 2016
NIH researchers have announced the discovery of a rare and sometimes deadly inflammatory disease, named Otulipenia, which affects primarily children and has a variety of symptoms including fever, skin rashes, diarrhea, joint pain, and overall failure of children to grow or thrive. The scientists also identified anti-inflammotory treatments for the…
Published on August 22, 2016
Investigators at the University of Michigan Medical School recently set out to determine the level of racial disparity among genomic samples sequenced within databases such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) as the representation of ethnic minorities for sequencing efforts is vague, and could have a huge impact on health…
Published on August 17, 2016
The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) announced today that it is teaming up with Queen’s University and Thermo Fisher Scientific to help bring more targeted diagnosis and treatment to breast cancer patients. The new collaboration aims to identify mutations and copy number changes found in breast cancer samples and…
Published on August 16, 2016
An innovative group of researchers and technology companies is currently meeting in San Diego to try to produce new hypotheses for a set of six patients struggling with undiagnosed diseases. The UnDx Consortium, which is composed of five precision medicine technology providers and experts from medical centers and universities across…
Published on August 9, 2016
Researchers at Australia's Garvan Institute of Medical Research have developed a new technology based on synthetic human genome sequences, which they have dubbed “Sequins” and describe as synthetic mirror DNA sequences that reflect the human genome. The new technology is described in two linked studies—“Spliced synthetic genes as internal controls…
Published on August 4, 2016
The breast is a microenvironment. It consists of epithelium, stroma, and a mucosal immune system. It is also home to a collection of microbes. Call them partners, bystanders, or interlopers, these microbes are actually community members. And it is as a community that a particular collection of microbes—a microbiome—may impact…
Published on August 1, 2016
Sponsor: Porvair Sciences These high-performance PCR plates are made from polypropylene for extra rigidity and are compatible with the majority of 96- and 384-well block PCR and sequencing instruments, including fast sequencers and the Roche Light Cycler™ RT-PCR machines. Manufactured under Class 10,000 clean room conditions, the complete range of…
Published on July 29, 2016
New computational genomics company Phosphorous announced earlier this week it secured $10 million in a Series A funding round led by FirstMark Capital, its founders, and undisclosed angel investors. The company’s focus is to build a worldwide genomic data network that will help healthcare providers, researchers, and patients leverage genomic…
Published on July 27, 2016
Results from a recent clinical analysis by investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center (VAMC) have revealed disparities in circulating levels of vitamin D and expression of pro-inflammatory genes, at the transcriptome-level, between African-American (AA) patients with prostate cancer compared…
Published on July 19, 2016
In a new study led by investigators at the University of Utah School of Medicine, researchers report on their recent findings on an advance that could directly increase the sensitivity of liquid biopsies. These new minimally invasive blood tests have been growing in popularity over the past few years on…
Published on July 11, 2016
The NIH recently award $55 million to support projects of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) to further build out the research and data infrastructure needed to recruit the 1-million person research cohort targeted for the project. Separately, the FDA issued two draft guidance documents aimed at providing a framework for…
Published on July 11, 2016
The National Cancer Institute (NCI), Cancer Research UK, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and the foundation Hubrecht Organoid Technology announced a new collaboration to develop the Human Cancer Models Initiative (HCMI), a new, globally accessible bank of up to 1,000 new cancer cell models aimed at significantly accelerating cancer research.…