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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. 4 in the journal Nature Genetics. THURSDAY, Jan.

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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

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Beam aims to make more precise edits with genetic medicines, which employ base-editing. Instead of snipping the genome, base editing lets for edits of individual letters in a genetic sequence. Beam employs three approaches to deliver its genetic medicines to cells.

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AI test could predict best cancer therapies for patients

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Researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London have designed a prototype test that they think could be used to predict which combinations are likely to work in cancer patients within two days. The researchers are already planning a larger follow-up study which will test 15 drugs and look at 12,000 tumour cell proteins.

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