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Genetic Disease
Genetic diseases are disorders stemming from mutations in an individual's DNA sequence. These conditions can be a result of mutations in a single or multiple genes. An example of a genetic disease is cystic fibrosis: an inherited, progressive disease that affects the respiratory system.
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APR 18, 2016Microbiology
Cholera bacteria kill as many as 140,000 people a year. Away from humans, the same bacteria kill neighboring microbes wi ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)APR 13, 2016Cancer
Scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts are launching a cancer tissue repository for use ...APR 12, 2016Cardiology
There is still no evidence of genetic difference between blacks and whites to account for the health disparities in card ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)APR 12, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Not unlike technology straight out of science fiction, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have develop ...APR 12, 2016Neuroscience
Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia are devastating to patients and their families because when memori ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 11, 2016Health & Medicine
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder that is directly related to a misdirected immune response to gluten, a protein ...Written By: Kara MarkerAPR 10, 2016Genetics & Genomics
Since 2010 scientists have known that people of Eurasian origin have inherited anywhere from 1 to 4 percent of their DNA ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)APR 07, 2016Health & Medicine
How much medication should you be prescribed? Everyone is born with a different body, so how much and what kind of medic ...Written By: Julianne ChiaetAPR 06, 2016Immunology
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and collaborating institutions have described the first-ever immatur ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)APR 06, 2016Health & Medicine
There seems to be endless combination of gene variants that can occur from just four nucleotide letters. Some of these v ...Written By: Kara MarkerAPR 04, 2016Genetics & Genomics
DNA, the diverse combination of just four nucleotide letters that writes our genetic code, can do more than just form a ...Written By: Kara MarkerAPR 04, 2016Videos
Molecular diagnostics is growing rapidly as tools to help analyze biological markers become more advanced. Molecular dia ...Written By: Jennifer EllisAPR 04, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
To confirm the presence of cancerous tissues, doctors often have to rely on biopsies, which can be painful and highly in ...APR 01, 2016Videos
It is estimated that 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed each year with breast cancer. While there have been significant impr ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 31, 2016Health & Medicine
A painful inflammatory disease has been plaguing a Flemish family for more than three generations, and for the first tim ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAR 30, 2016Health & Medicine
Controlling the mosquito population that spreads the malaria parasite has long been a technique for reducing the prevale ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAR 30, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
To help treat pancreatic cancer, scientists are taking a step back to diagnose the disease before it becomes lethal. In ...MAR 28, 2016Videos
Over the course of history, marrying within families was not an unusual practice, especially in families of royalty desc ...MAR 28, 2016Cardiology
It may be hard to believe, but fruit flies have surprisingly similar sleeping habits to humans. To determine the relatio ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAR 27, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Since their discovery in the early 1990s and 2000s, micro-RNAs (miRNAs) have been implicated in a variety of human condi ...MAR 26, 2016Cancer
One of the biggest surprise findings from the completion of the Human Genome Project was that only 1.5 percent of our ge ...MAR 25, 2016Cancer
Using specialized bubbles to deliver an anti-cancer drug, scientists at the University of Georgia (UGA) effectively redu ...MAR 24, 2016Genetics & Genomics
What does Brad Pitt have in common with a fruit fly? They both have cowlicks—a swirl of hair caused by a patternin ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)MAR 23, 2016Cancer
In a large drug screening trial, scientists identified a unique drug combination that is effective against the most aggr ...
APR 18, 2016
Microbiology
Cholera bacteria kill as many as 140,000 people a year. Away from humans, the same bacteria kill neighboring microbes wi
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 13, 2016
Cancer
Scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts are launching a cancer tissue repository for use
...
APR 12, 2016
Cardiology
There is still no evidence of genetic difference between blacks and whites to account for the health disparities in card
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 12, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Not unlike technology straight out of science fiction, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have develop
...
APR 12, 2016
Neuroscience
Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia are devastating to patients and their families because when memori
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 11, 2016
Health & Medicine
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder that is directly related to a misdirected immune response to gluten, a protein
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 10, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Since 2010 scientists have known that people of Eurasian origin have inherited anywhere from 1 to 4 percent of their DNA
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 07, 2016
Health & Medicine
How much medication should you be prescribed? Everyone is born with a different body, so how much and what kind of medic
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
APR 06, 2016
Immunology
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and collaborating institutions have described the first-ever immatur
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
APR 06, 2016
Health & Medicine
There seems to be endless combination of gene variants that can occur from just four nucleotide letters. Some of these v
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 04, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
DNA, the diverse combination of just four nucleotide letters that writes our genetic code, can do more than just form a
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 04, 2016
Videos
Molecular diagnostics is growing rapidly as tools to help analyze biological markers become more advanced. Molecular dia
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
APR 04, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
To confirm the presence of cancerous tissues, doctors often have to rely on biopsies, which can be painful and highly in
...
APR 01, 2016
Videos
It is estimated that 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed each year with breast cancer. While there have been significant impr
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 31, 2016
Health & Medicine
A painful inflammatory disease has been plaguing a Flemish family for more than three generations, and for the first tim
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 30, 2016
Health & Medicine
Controlling the mosquito population that spreads the malaria parasite has long been a technique for reducing the prevale
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 30, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
To help treat pancreatic cancer, scientists are taking a step back to diagnose the disease before it becomes lethal. In
...
MAR 28, 2016
Videos
Over the course of history, marrying within families was not an unusual practice, especially in families of royalty desc
...
MAR 28, 2016
Cardiology
It may be hard to believe, but fruit flies have surprisingly similar sleeping habits to humans. To determine the relatio
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 27, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Since their discovery in the early 1990s and 2000s, micro-RNAs (miRNAs) have been implicated in a variety of human condi
...
MAR 26, 2016
Cancer
One of the biggest surprise findings from the completion of the Human Genome Project was that only 1.5 percent of our ge
...
MAR 25, 2016
Cancer
Using specialized bubbles to deliver an anti-cancer drug, scientists at the University of Georgia (UGA) effectively redu
...
MAR 24, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
What does Brad Pitt have in common with a fruit fly? They both have cowlicks—a swirl of hair caused by a patternin
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
MAR 23, 2016
Cancer
In a large drug screening trial, scientists identified a unique drug combination that is effective against the most aggr
...