Professor Alessandra Renieri, Director of the Medical Genetics Unit at the University Hospital of Siena, Italy, will describe her team's GEN-COVID project to collect genomic samples from COVID patients across the whole of Italy in order to try to identify the genetic...
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Finnish Researchers Discover New Gene Mutation Linked with Fabry Cardiomyopathy
Researchers from Finland have revealed in a study that the A143T variant of the GLA gene is associated with an increased risk of Fabry cardiomyopathy. The variant plays a role in lipid metabolism. The researchers reported that patients carrying the mutation and...
Scientists Find RNA Affecting Skin Cancer Progression
Researchers at the University of Turku, Turku University Central Hospital, and Western Cancer Center (FICAN West) have discovered a new RNA molecule, PRECSIT, which regulates the growth and invasion of squamous cell carcinoma of the skin. In the future, PRECSIT could...
UNSW Sydney Receives World First Diabetic Research Study Following Babies from Pregnancy to Early Childhood
University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, along with partners, have been awarded $8.25 million to further a study titled The Environmental Determinants of Islet Autoimmunity (ENDIA). The Type I Diabetes Problem Type 1 diabetes in Australian children is twice as...
The Future of Cardio Care: Assessment, Genetics and AI
According to Dr. Irving Kent Loh, chief medical officer and co-founder of Infermedica, an artificial intelligence in healthcare company focused on clinical decision support, the future of healthcare is headed for vast changes in the next decade. Dr. Loh, a...
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology-Led Study Uncovers Intel Regarding Genetic Risk Associated with Dementia
Dementia researchers have worked tirelessly to develop the ability for early detection of diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Recently, an Alabama-based team uncovered new intelligence that could lead the field closer to early detection. Led by the Myers Lab within...
McGill University Translational Neuroimaging Laboratory Identify New Role of Genetic Risk Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease
McGill University, Neuroimaging Translational Laboratory researchers, recently announced that they have uncovered that the apolipoprotein ꜫ4 (APOE ꜫ4) gene is associated with an even greater role in dementia. Background In a recently published study in...
University of Utah Researchers Receive $3m to Understand Genetics of Asthma & Pollution: A Personalized Intervention
University of Utah researchers have received a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to study how variations in pollutant-sensing genes in the lungs could influence air pollution effects on children who have...
NIH Awards $68m to Washington University St. Louis for Health Longevity Study
The National Institute of Health (NIH) has awarded Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis $68 million to investigate and discover what contributes to extreme longevity. By studying hundreds of families with exceptionally long lives these researchers...
New Guidelines on Expanded Risk Assessment for Breast Cancer Includes Survivors
Veteran Baystate Health medical oncologist Grace Makari-Judson and Dr. Dawn Brooks, a new medical oncologist at the Baystate Regional Cancer Program, discuss new guidelines designed to help locate a greater number of women, including breast cancer survivors,...
University of Utah Awarded up to $8.7M for Driving Role in ‘All of Us’ Genetics Research Study
University of Utah (UofU) allocated $1.6 million in year one and can earn up to $8.7 million for the next five years to assist the National Institutes of Health’s “All of Us” research program. The UofU will work with community representatives to develop educational...
Jscreen of Emory University Partners with Winship Cancer Center for PEACH Genetic Screening Study for Ashkenazi Jews
Emory University School of Medicine’s Department of Human Genetics launched a BRCA screening for cancer risk in the metro-Atlanta area for people with Ashkenazi (Eastern or Central European) Jewish background. Why? Ashkenazi Jews are 10 times at greater risk of having...
Collaborative Study Revels Genetic Link to Heart Disease
A collaboration involving the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the German Heart Center Munich, AstraZeneca, and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has demonstrated that more than 30 percent of heart disease risk stems from genetic factors, much more than was...
Intermountain Healthcare & deCODE Genetics Form Alliance to Identify Disease Before it Happens
Utah doctors believe effort will help Utahns with inherited risks avoid cancers and other illneses. Utahns are making history,reports the Deseret News. Intermountain Healthcare reports it has partnered with Icelandic-based deCODE genetics, an Amgen subsidiary and a...
San Antonio’s Texas BioMed Collaborates with Mexican Academic Centers on Cardiovascular Research
Watch KENS5 video on the news featuring San Antonio, TX, Texas Biomed joining 10 research institutions from Mexico, searching together for a link between cardiovascular disease and how our bodies process food. Dr. Raul Bastarrachea is one of the investigators...
UCSD-Derived Gene Therapy Technology Secures $55 Million
Bradley J. Fikes of the San Diego Union Tribune reports San Diego-based Locana has raised $55 million in venture capital funds. The biotech startup targets abnormal RNA instead of DNA to treat genetic diseases. Background Locana’s gene therapy technology was...
University of PA Co-Author Reports White Bias Could be Hurting Genetic Research—And Us All
Yes modern humans migrated out of Africa over 300,000 years ago. PBS reports about 80,000 years ago, a small group left the continent and explored around the world, bringing along a subset of genes and genetic variation that their ancestors had developed. Genetic...
University of Buffalo-led Study Finds Link Between Temperament of High Risk Infants & Obesity
Charles Anzalone of University at Buffalo reports in MedicalXpress that children born to mothers with gestational diabetes and who were easier to soothe as infants were at a higher risk to become obese children, according to a recent study published in JAMA...
FDA Approves Larotrectinib: Bayer’s Genetics-based Cancer Treatment
A first-of-its-kind cancer drug has just been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in patients with many types of cancer, including malignant mesothelioma. The drug is manufactured by Bayer and is called larotrectinib, though it is sold under the...
Rutgers Researcher Identifies Gene Responsible for Spread of Prostate Cancer
As reported in ScienceBlog, a Rutgers study has found that a specific gene in cancerous prostate tumors indicates when patients are at a high-risk for the cancer to spread, suggesting that targeting this gene can help patients live longer. The study, which was...