Genetic variants found to play key role in human immune system
Credit: Study authors NEW YORK (August 16, 2017) - It is widely recognized that people respond differently to infections. This can partially be explained by...
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The environmental injustice of beauty
Credit: Courtesy of Snapshot WASHINGTON, DC (August 16, 2017)-- Women of color have higher levels of beauty-product-related chemicals in their bodies compared to white women,...
UTSA professor receives $1.5 million grant to study male infertility
(SAN ANTONIO, August 16, 2017) -- Brian Hermann, assistant professor of biology at The University of Texas at San Antonio, has received a $1.5 million...
PCORI Board approves nearly $74 million for research on palliative care
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved nearly $74 million to fund seven studies comparing the effectiveness of...
PCORI Board approves $115 million to support 20 new patient-centered CER research studies
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved more than $115 million to fund 20 comparative clinical effectiveness research...
CHLA researcher awarded $1.9 million by NIH
Muller Fabbri, MD, PhD, of the Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, has been awarded $1.9 million by the...
How a nutrient, glutamine, can control gene programs in cells
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The 200 different types of cells in the body all start with the same DNA genome. To differentiate into families...
How decision-making habits influence the breast cancer treatments women consider
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- A new study finds that more than half of women with early stage breast cancer considered an aggressive...
Liquid biopsies find distinct genomic profiles in most patients with carcinoma of unknown primary
Bottom Line: Next-generation sequencing of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) identified distinct genomic profiles with potentially targetable alterations in 99.7 percent of patients with carcinoma of...
A metabolic treatment for pancreatic cancer?
BOSTON(August 14, 2017) - Pancreatic cancer is now the third leading cause of cancer mortality. Its incidence is increasing in parallel with the population increase...
CHOP to lead new pediatric data resource center for research in childhood cancer, birth defects
The Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) will lead a new, collaborative effort funded by the National Institutes...
Skewing the aim of targeted cancer therapies
Credit: Georgia Tech / McDonald / Zhang Headlines, of late, have touted the successes of targeted gene-based cancer therapies, such as immunotherapies, but, unfortunately, also...
Genome sequencing method can detect clinically relevant mutations using 5 CTCs
Bottom Line: Whole genome sequencing using long fragment read (LFR), a technology that can analyze the entire genomic content of small numbers of cells, detected...
UCI study uncovers possible roots of schizophrenia
Credit: UCI Irvine, Calif., Aug. 15, 2017 - An abundance of an amino acid called methionine, which is common in meat, cheese and beans, may...
Chapman University’s School of Pharmacy receives research grants totaling $3.5 million
Credit: Chapman University ding each year, bringing the total awards since the School opened in 2014 to just more than $3.5 million through nearly 30...
