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Efficient, Systematic Genetic Analysis Helps Dissect Disease Inheritance

February 25, 2021
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Hong Kong, China — Many genetic variants have been found to have a linkage with genetic diseases, but the understanding of their functional roles in causing diseases are still limited. An international...

Detecting Multiple Sepsis Biomarkers from Whole Blood – Made Fast, Accurate, and Cheap

February 15, 2021
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Boston, MA — Many life-threatening medical conditions, such as sepsis, which is triggered by blood-borne pathogens, cannot be detected accurately and quickly enough to initiate the right course of...

Biomarkers in Mother’s Plasma Predict a Type of Autism in Offspring with 100% Accuracy

January 26, 2021
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Davis, CA — Using machine learning, researchers at the UC Davis MIND Institute have identified several patterns of maternal autoantibodies highly associated with the diagnosis and severity of autism. Their...

No More Needles for Diagnostic Tests?

January 25, 2021
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St. Louis, MO — Blood draws are no fun. They hurt. Veins can burst, or even roll — like they’re trying to avoid the needle, too. Oftentimes, doctors use blood samples to check for...

How to Use Antibodies to Control Chemical Reactions

December 8, 2020
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Rome, Italy — Antibodies are remarkable biomarkers: they are the cues that provide us with indications about many diseases and how our immune system counter them. Now a group of scientists from the...

Co-Occurrence of Cancer Driver Genes, Key to Precision Medicine

September 24, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — Cancer driver genes are those with mutations that are essential for tumour development and spread. Led by ICREA researcher Patrick Aloy, scientists from the Structural Bioinformatics...

New Method of Detecting Illnesses Including Coronavirus and Cystic Fibrosis

September 3, 2020
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Leeds, UK — A new and quicker method of diagnosing diseases in patients has been created by researchers at the University of Leeds. The team has developed a system of examining individual molecules...

Phosphoprotein Biomarkers to Guide Cancer Therapy are Identified

July 30, 2020
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Birmingham, AL — Precision medicine in cancer treatment uses genetic changes in the cancer cells to select the best therapies for individual patients. Now researchers led by Dr. James Bibb, professor...

Silver-Plated Gold Nanostars Detect Early Cancer Biomarkers

July 23, 2020
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Durham, NC — Biomedical engineers at Duke University have engineered a method for simultaneously detecting the presence of multiple specific microRNAs in RNA extracted from tissue samples without the...

Clear Signs of Brain Injury With Severe COVID-19

June 22, 2020
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Gothenburg, Sweden — Certain patients who receive hospital care for coronavirus infection (COVID-19) exhibit clinical and neurochemical signs of brain injury, a University of Gothenburg study shows....

Could the Blood of COVID-19 Patients be Used to Predict Disease Progression?

June 8, 2020
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Berlin, Germany — People respond very differently to infection with the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). While some patients develop no symptoms at all, others will develop severe disease and may even...

Silver Nanocubes Make Point-of-Care Diagnostics Easier to Read

May 14, 2020
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Durham, NC — Engineers at Duke University have shown that nanosized silver cubes can make diagnostic tests that rely on fluorescence easier to read by making them more than 150 times brighter. Combined...

Wastewater Test could Provide Early Warning of COVID-19

March 31, 2020
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Bedford, UK — Researchers at Cranfield University are working on a new test to detect SARS-CoV-2 in the wastewater of communities infected with the virus. The wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE)...

Crumpled Graphene Makes Ultra-Sensitive Cancer DNA Detector

March 24, 2020
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Champaign, IL — Graphene-based biosensors could usher in an era of liquid biopsy, detecting DNA cancer markers circulating in a patient’s blood or serum. But current designs need a lot of DNA....

Microbiome Search Engine can Increase Efficiency in Disease Detection and Diagnosis

March 24, 2020
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Beijing, China — Big data makes big promises when it comes to providing insights into human behaviour and health. The problem is how to harness the information it provides in an efficient manner. An...

New Technology Helps in Hunt for New Cancer Drug Combinations

March 19, 2020
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Parkville, Australia — A revolutionary new technology has been applied to reveal the inner workings of individual cancer cells – potentially identifying more effective treatment combinations...

Biomarker in Saliva Predicts Childhood Obesity Risk

March 9, 2020
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Nashville, TN — A molecular marker in saliva is associated with the emergence of childhood obesity in a group of preschool-aged Hispanic children. The intriguing discovery, reported in the journal BMC...

New Biomarkers for Diagnosis and Prognosis of Lung Cancer, Researchers Identify

February 25, 2020
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Málaga, Spain — Applying bioinformatics to resolve biological problems. This is the objective of the research group of the University of Malaga “BI4NEXT”, which, in one of its latest studies,...

Autism Eye Scan could Lead to Early Detection

February 24, 2020
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Adelaide, Australia — A new eye scan could help identify autism in children years earlier than currently possible. The non-invasive eye scan utilises a hand-held device to find a pattern of subtle...

Human Gut-in-a-Dish Model Helps Define ‘Leaky Gut,’ and Outline Pathway to Treatment

February 11, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Once a vague scapegoat for a variety of ills, increasing evidence suggests a condition known as “leaky gut” — in which microbes and other molecules seep out of the...

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