News tagged with genetic profiles
Potential for incorrect relationship identification in new forensic familial searching techniques
New research suggests that unrelated individuals may be mistakenly identified as genetic family members due to inaccurate genetic assumptions. This is particularly relevant when considering familial searching: a new technique ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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'Goldilocks' gene could determine best treatment for tuberculosis patients
Tuberculosis patients may receive treatments in the future according to what version they have of a single 'Goldilocks' gene, says an international research team from Oxford University, King's College London, Vietnam and ...
Feb 02, 2012 |
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Lawson research team working to personalize cancer care
The Lawson Translational Cancer Research Team (LTCRT) of the Lawson Health Research Institute is one of five groups participating in a new study that seeks to personalize cancer drug treatment.
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Aging human bodies and aging human oocytes run on different clocks
Reproductive and somatic aging use different molecular mechanisms that show little overlap between the types of genes required to keep oocytes healthy and the genes that generally extend life span, according to Coleen Murphy, ...
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Gene responsible for relapses in young leukemia patients
One of the causes of resistance to cancer treatment in children is now beginning to be elucidated. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients with a particular form of the ATF5 gene are at higher risk of having a relapse when ...
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Plant genomes may help next generation respond to climate change
In the face of climate change, animals have an advantage over plants: They can move. But a new study led by Brown University researchers shows that plants may have some tricks of their own.
Oct 06, 2011 |
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Metabolomics as a basis for gender-specific drugs
Analyses of the metabolic profile of blood serum have revealed significant differences in metabolites between men and women. In a study to be published on August 11 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, scientists at the ...
Aug 11, 2011 |
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King Tut and half of European men share DNA
According to a group of geneticists in Switzerland from iGENEA, the DNA genealogy center, as many as half of all European men and 70 percent of British men share the same DNA as the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, ...
Aug 03, 2011 |
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Novel analysis method organizes genomic cancer data
The technology that allows scientists to profile the entire genome of individual tumors offers new hope for discovering ways to select the best treatment for each patient's particular type of cancer. However, these profiles ...
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Google-backed 23andMe hits major milestone: 100,000 users in DNA database
Mountain View, Calif., genomics startup 23andMe just hit a milestone: As of Wednesday, 100,000 people have uploaded their genetic code to the 4-year-old company's database.
Jun 16, 2011 |
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Targeted testing offers treatment hope for ovarian cancer patients
Women with ovarian cancer could be helped by a new test that identifies the specific type of tumour they have, a conference will hear this week.
May 31, 2011 |
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Genes, not race, determine donor kidney survival
A new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center sheds light on what causes certain kidneys to do better than others after being transplanted, providing doctors with an easy way to screen for donor kidneys ...
May 10, 2011 |
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Researchers use novel methods to identify how cigarette smoke affects smokers
Smoke from cigarettes can affect nearly every organ in the body by promoting cell damage and causing inflammation, but no one has understood which smoker is or is not susceptible to disease development.
Apr 06, 2011 |
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The future looks bright for HCV patients who have failed to respond to current treatments
Berlin, Germany, Friday 1st April 2011: Highly anticipated data from a number of clinical trials presented for the first time at the International Liver CongressTM confirmed that a range of new proteases inhibitors will help ...
Apr 01, 2011 |
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Talking the language of genes
(PhysOrg.com) -- The majority of hospital cases of Clostridium difficile at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford are not caused by transmission of the bug within the hospital, so early results of a new project suggest.
Feb 02, 2011 |
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