Genetic test for child cancer patients
Hospitals around the UK are going to start examining the DNA of tumour cells from paediatric cancer patients in a pilot study starting later this year...
An approach to medicine based on grouping patients according to the characteristics of their disease or how they respond to particular treatments (or to prophylaxis). This enables the identification and development of measures that are most effective for particular groups of patients.
Hospitals around the UK are going to start examining the DNA of tumour cells from paediatric cancer patients in a pilot study starting later this year...
The prolific and popular 'Stuff You Should Know' podcast takes us down the pub to talk personalised medicine...
Researchers have used the CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing technique to correct a genetic mutation that causes blindness...
Two girls have become the first children to be diagnosed with rare genetic conditions through the 100,000 Genomes Project — the NHS DNA-sequencing initiative...
A gene involved in the brain's reward system has been found to affect people's ability to quit smoking, according to a new study...
On 26 October this year the CRISPR/Cas patent wars truly began with the filing of European oppositions against what appears to be the first patent granted in Europe for this revolutionary gene-editing technology....
by Ari Haque
A US biotechnology start-up co-founded by two pioneers of CRISPR technology intends to begin gene editing in humans as part of an experimental treatment to target a rare genetic eye disorder...
An experimental cell-based treatment using gene editing, previously only tested on mice, has successfully reversed advanced leukaemia in a one-year-old girl...
Genomic medicine has advanced rapidly in recent years and, with our increasing capacity to collect and store genetic information, it holds not only great promise but also pitfalls, for individuals and communities. This was the topic under discussion in a live video conversation on 7 October, organised by the Center for Genetics and Society...
by Neil Stoker
Researchers have identified genetic differences in breast cancers that relapse and those that do not, suggesting that the finding could be used to help doctors identify patients most at risk of their cancer returning...
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