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Genetic analysis of the most common type of bladder cancer yields guidance on treatment options

Medical Xpress

A comprehensive genomic analysis in more than 200 patients with metastatic urothelial carcinomas may help inform how a patient would respond to immunotherapy, report UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers and colleagues. About 90% of urothelial carcinomas are bladder cancers.

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Genetic Analysis co-develops HumGut – the world’s first complete database of reference genomes from the human gut microbiome

Drug Discovery Today

(Oslo, August 5, 2021) Molecular diagnostics specialist, Genetic Analysis AS (GA) today announced the first publication from the comprehensive HumGut microbiome database has appeared in the leading scientific journal Microbiome.

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New genetic analysis method could advance personal genomics

Scienmag

Computational method capable of decoding influence of rare variants Geneticists could identify the causes of disorders that currently go undiagnosed if standard practices for collecting individual genetic information were expanded to capture more variants that researchers can now decipher, concludes new Johns Hopkins University research.

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Genomic study reveals complex origins of people living in Tibetan-Yi corridor

Scienmag

In the most comprehensive genetic analysis of the native people there to date, researchers reveal that the ethnic groups’ peopling and migration history is more complex than previously concluded. China’s mountainous southwestern area is home to one of the country’s most ethnically diverse populations.

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Genes Help Explain Role of Race in Prostate Cancer Risk

The Pharma Data

Now, research is helping to bring genetic risks for people of various racial and ethnic groups into focus. Researchers from the USC Center for Genetic Epidemiology in Los Angeles and the Institute of Cancer Research in London led the study. THURSDAY, Jan. Men of Asian ancestry inherit about three-quarters the risk of white men.

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Beam makes USD 120M bet; GRAIL and Quest announce the collaboration; Brain organoids mimic infant’s brains; Improvement in T cells to kill cancer

Delveinsight

Beam Therapeutics has taken over a startup whose technology could proffer the biotech’s genetic medicines to more tissues in the body, widening the potential to approach more diseases. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Beam aims to make more precise edits with genetic medicines, which employ base-editing.

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International Women’s Day 2024: A Spotlight on 5 Women’s Health Webinars with Xtalks

XTalks

Breast Cancer Multiomics: Unified Insights in Tumor Heterogeneity This on-demand webinar introduces a cutting-edge single-cell multiomics method designed for garnering detailed genetic insights into breast cancer. The test accurately identified a range of genetic abnormalities, including trisomies and microdeletions.

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