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Caris Life Sciences to facilitate patient access to tumour profiling service in Middle East and Africa

Caris Life Sciences, a leading biosciences company focused on fulfilling the promise of personalized medicine in oncology, has signed a distribution agreement with IPS Genomix to facilitate patient access to its tumour profiling service, Molecular Intelligence, in select Middle Eastern and African markets.

22 Aug 2013

In dynamic mind-body interaction, brain recruits cells from immune system to promote anxiety

New research shows that in a dynamic mind-body interaction during the interpretation of prolonged stress, cells from the immune system are recruited to the brain and promote symptoms of anxiety.

22 Aug 2013

Medical investigators discover new aspect of gene-splicing process that produces mRNA

A rare, small RNA turns a gene-splicing machine into a switch that controls the expression of hundreds of human genes. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and professor of Biochemistry Gideon Dreyfuss, PhD, and his team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, discovered an entirely new aspect of the gene-splicing process that produces messenger RNA (mRNA).

22 Aug 2013

UC Davis Health System develops new screening strategy for lethal stage of TB in Asia

More than 20,000 people in Pakistan are being tested for the potentially deadly stage of tuberculosis using a new strategy developed at UC Davis Health System to effectively detect the disease in children for the first time.

22 Aug 2013

Oxford Gene Technology releases next generation sequencing survey results

Oxford Gene Technology, provider of innovative genetics research and biomarker solutions to advance molecular medicine, has released the results from a recent survey of researchers using next generation sequencing.

From Oxford Gene Technology 21 Aug 2013

Researchers identify gene that contributes to development of acute myeloid leukemia

Researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCCCC) have identified a gene that contributes to the development of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). This pivotal finding follows 40 years of University of Chicago research that has slowly unraveled the genetic basis of leukemia.

21 Aug 2013

Children with gene amplification may require more aggressive treatment for ALL

A recent study by members of the Children's Oncology Group reports results of a large trial showing that children whose leukemia cells have amplification of a portion of chromosome 21 may require more aggressive treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) than children without this gene amplification.

21 Aug 2013

Researchers identify genome-wide locus for serious gastrointestinal condition in infants

Researchers have identified a new genome-wide significant locus (the place a gene occupies on a chromosome) for infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS), a serious gastrointestinal condition associated with gastrointestinal obstruction, according to a study in the August 21 issue of JAMA. Characteristics of this locus also suggest the possibility of an inverse relationship between levels of circulating cholesterol in neonates and IHPS risk.

21 Aug 2013

Twice-daily KALYDECO improves lung function in people with cystic fibrosis

Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Australia) Pty Ltd., announces the presentation of data from KALYDECO (ivacaftor) studies at the 10th Australasian Cystic Fibrosis Conference in Auckland, New Zealand, August 17 – 20, 2013, which further demonstrate the benefits of the medicine in people with cystic fibrosis ages 6 and older who have at least one copy of the G551D mutation in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene.

21 Aug 2013

Research suggests gene therapy approach may be feasible option to treat Rett Syndrome

The concept behind gene therapy is simple: deliver a healthy gene to compensate for one that is mutated. New research published today in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests this approach may eventually be a feasible option to treat Rett Syndrome, the most disabling of the autism spectrum disorders.

21 Aug 2013

RNA biomarkers in blood may identify people at risk for committing suicide

Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have found a series of RNA biomarkers in blood that may help identify who is at risk for committing suicide.

20 Aug 2013

Researchers identify key transcription factor linked with treatment-resistant prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in men and the leading cause of cancer deaths in white, African-American and Hispanic men, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Current treatment of prostate cancer targets androgens, hormones which promote the growth and spread of cancer cells.

20 Aug 2013

Researchers find new strategy that has potential to change standard of care for DLBCL patients

Patients with an aggressive lymphoma that often relapses and kills within two years experienced a remission of their cancer and stayed disease-free as long as 28 months after taking a commercially-available drug that made chemotherapy more effective.

20 Aug 2013

Advance team of molecules produced by primary tumor is responsible for lung cancer metastasis

Cancer metastasis requires tumor cells to acquire properties that allow them to escape from the primary tumor site, travel to a distant place in the body, and form secondary tumors. But first, an advance team of molecules produced by the primary tumor sets off a series of events that create a network of nurturing blood vessels for arriving primary tumor cells to set up shop.

20 Aug 2013

Study shows complement activation plays an important role in inherited macular degeneration

In a study published on line this week in the journal Human Molecular Genetics, Drs. Donita Garland, Rosario Fernandez-Godino, and Eric Pierce of the Ocular Genomics Institute at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, along with their colleagues, reported the unexpected finding that in mice genetically engineered to have an inherited form of macular degeneration, turning off the animals' complement system, a part of the immune system, prevented the disease.

20 Aug 2013

Researchers create mouse models to advance the study of unusual deadly diseases

By directly manipulating a portion of the prion protein-coding gene, Whitehead Institute researchers have created mouse models of two neurodegenerative diseases that are fatal in humans. The highly accurate reproduction of disease pathology seen with these models should advance the study of these unusual but deadly diseases.

20 Aug 2013

Scientists study how oxidative stress in cells impacts sarcopenia in all humans as they age

Although muscle cells did not reduce in size or number in mice lacking a protective antioxidant protein, they were weaker than normal muscle cells, researchers from the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio found.

20 Aug 2013

Evogene announces financial results for second quarter and half year 2013

Evogene Ltd., a leader in plant genomics underlying crop productivity for the food, feed and biofuel industries, today announced its financial results for the second quarter and half year ended June 30, 2013.

19 Aug 2013

Illumina announces availability of its newest reagent kits for MiSeq benchtop sequencer

Illumina, Inc. today announced the availability of its newest reagent kits for the MiSeq, the industry's most accurate and easiest-to-use benchtop sequencer. The improved chemistry doubles sequencing output to 15 gigabases (Gb) by increasing the number of sequencing reads (up to 25 million reads) and overall read length (up to 2x300 base pairs). These innovations enable researchers to perform new applications including exome sequencing on the MiSeq.

From Illumina, Inc. 19 Aug 2013

New antibodies estimate risk of polyps developing into bowel cancer

Polyps in the mucosa of the colon are a common finding during screening colonoscopies. Some sub-groups of polyps are classed as precursors of bowel cancer. Until now, it has not been possible to precisely estimate the risk of these polyps developing into bowel cancer.

19 Aug 2013

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Latest Gene News and Research

Caris Life Sciences to facilitate patient access to tumour profiling service in Middle East and Africa

In dynamic mind-body interaction, brain recruits cells from immune system to promote anxiety

Medical investigators discover new aspect of gene-splicing process that produces mRNA

UC Davis Health System develops new screening strategy for lethal stage of TB in Asia

Oxford Gene Technology releases next generation sequencing survey results

Researchers identify gene that contributes to development of acute myeloid leukemia

Children with gene amplification may require more aggressive treatment for ALL

Researchers identify genome-wide locus for serious gastrointestinal condition in infants

Twice-daily KALYDECO improves lung function in people with cystic fibrosis

Research suggests gene therapy approach may be feasible option to treat Rett Syndrome

RNA biomarkers in blood may identify people at risk for committing suicide

Researchers identify key transcription factor linked with treatment-resistant prostate cancer

Researchers find new strategy that has potential to change standard of care for DLBCL patients

Advance team of molecules produced by primary tumor is responsible for lung cancer metastasis

Study shows complement activation plays an important role in inherited macular degeneration

Researchers create mouse models to advance the study of unusual deadly diseases

Scientists study how oxidative stress in cells impacts sarcopenia in all humans as they age

Evogene announces financial results for second quarter and half year 2013

Illumina announces availability of its newest reagent kits for MiSeq benchtop sequencer

New antibodies estimate risk of polyps developing into bowel cancer

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