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In the largest-ever study of its kind researchers identified more than 100 genetic variants that affect the risk for more than one mental health condition.

Researchers have discovered how to use circulating tumor DNA to predict whether triple negative breast cancer will recur.

While trying to develop a comparatively easy, inexpensive way to give physicians and their patients with bladder cancer a better idea of likely outcome and best treatment options, scientists found that sophisticated new subtyping techniques designed to do this provide no better information than long-standing pathology tests.

Researchers have developed a new method to analyse data from individual human cells, which they say could be a step-change for diagnosing some of the most devastating diseases, including cancer and autoimmune disease.

To uncover the relationship between variation in genes and phenotypic diversity, geneticists use a set of fully sequenced fruit-fly genomes. But little is known about the variation in the mitochondrial genome, for which mutations are linked to an array of diseases. Now, EPFL scientists have created a high-resolution map of mitochondrial DNA variants in the fruit fly, connecting mitochondrial genes to metabolic traits and diseases.

New nanotechnology could allow doctors to more effectively detect blockages that can trigger heart attacks and strokes.

A prescription of short-term exercise for patients with advanced prostate cancer could help to reduce the side-effects of hormone therapy, according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

UT Southwestern researchers have developed a software tool that uses artificial intelligence to recognize cancer cells from digital pathology images – giving clinicians a powerful way of predicting patient outcomes.

Two biomarkers – a 44-gene DNA Damage Response (DDIR) signature and stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (sTILs) – can serve as prognostic markers in people diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer, according to a new study.

Researchers have developed the 'FrogPhone', a novel device which allows scientists to call up a frog survey site and monitor them in the wild. The FrogPhone is the world's first solar-powered remote survey device that relays environmental data to the observer via text messages, whilst conducting real-time remote acoustic surveys over the phone.