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IBM Watson Turns Oncogenes Into Drug Targets
Researchers are hoping this icon of artificial intelligence will help people with cancer win as well by providing a rapid, comprehensive report of the genetic mutations at the root of their specific disease and the therapies that target them.
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DNA Study Contradicts Conventional Wisdom On the Origin of Modern Humans
A University of Utah-led team developed a new method for analyzing DNA sequence data to reconstruct the early history of the archaic human populations.
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MRSA Survival Chances Predicted by DNA Sequencing
Sequencing the DNA of the MRSA superbug can accurately identify patients most at risk of death and could help medics develop new treatments as we move towards personalised medicine.
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Genetic Basis of Radiation-induced Brain Cancer Identified
Neuroscientists have uncovered the genetic basis for why many long-term survivors of childhood cancer develop meningiomas, the most common adult brain tumour, decades after their treatment with cranial radiation.
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CRISPR Used to Identify Genes Essential for Cancer Immunotherapy
This study addresses the problem of why some tumors don’t respond to immunotherapy or respond initially but then stop as tumor cells develop resistance to immunotherapy.
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Breakthrough Device Heals Organs with a Single Touch
Device instantly delivers new DNA or RNA into living skin cells to change their function, could lead to future treatments for wounds or damage from strokes.
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Gene Involved in Natural Variation in Heart Regeneration Identified
A study from USC has shown that some people are better than others at recovering from a wounded heart, opening up opportunities to stimulate regeneration and prevent heart disease.
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Multi-nutrient Rice to Fight Malnutrition
ETH researchers have developed a new rice variety that not only has increased levels of the micronutrients iron and zinc in the grains, but also produces beta-carotene as a precursor of vitamin A.
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Geneformics Launches the First Truly Scalable Genomics Data Compression Solution to Accelerate the Migration of Precision Medicine to the Cloud
Geneformics Data Systems launches Geneformics D, a cloud compression solution for archiving genomics data.
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Improving Diagnosis of Mitochondrial Disease
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute scientists have shown a new approach to genetic analysis could greatly improve diagnostic rates for children with baffling and often fatal mitochondrial diseases.
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