Neurogenomics – News and Features

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Adult Brain Neurons Can Remodel Connections
The findings could lead to creating growth in cells and regions normally unable to repair themselves.

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Large-Scale Genetic Study Sheds New Light on Lung Cancer, Opens Door to Individualized Treatment Strategies
A multi-institution team has reported results of the largest effort to date to chart the genetic changes involved in lung adenocarcinoma.

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Sequenom Announces Launch of RNA-Based Noninvasive Aneuploidy (RNA) Study
Independent Study Will Document Performance of SEQureDx T21 Technology for Down Syndrome in 10,000 Pregnant Women

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NIH Scientists Identify Link between Brain Systems Implicated in Schizophrenia
The finding suggests that schizophrenia could result from a malfunction anywhere in the link between the three distinct brain circuits.

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NIH Announces Funding for new Epigenomics Initiative
The Institute will invest $190 million over the next five years to accelerate this emerging field of biomedical research.

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Sequenom Announces Licensing Agreement with Genomic Nanosystems
The license provides Sequenom with the exclusive right to use digital PCR methods for noninvasive prenatal diagnostics and analysis.

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The Cancer Genome Atlas Reports First Results of Comprehensive Study of Brain Tumors
TCGA team describes the discovery of new genetic mutations and other types of DNA alterations with potential implications for the treatment of glioblastoma.

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Sequenom Acquires License to Digital PCR and Other Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnostic Intellectual Property
The license expands Sequenom's IP portfolio of noninvasive prenatal diagnostic methods using fetal nucleic acids obtained from a maternal sample.

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Likely Cause of Postpartum Blues and Depression Identified
Unique biochemical crosstalk that enables a fetus to get nutrition and oxygen from its mother's blood just may cause common postpartum blues.

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Researchers Uncover West Nile’s Targets
Screening the entire human genome, a team headed by Yale University scientists has identified several hundred genes that impact West Nile virus infection.
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