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  • UC San Diego To Lead New Pharmacogenomics Project
    An international team, led by University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers, has been awarded a $6.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the pharmacogenomics of a key mood-stabilizing drug used to treat bipolar disorder...

  • NIH Awards Nearly $10 Million To UF Pharmacogenomics Researcher
    A University of Florida genetics researcher has received $9.8 million to further a national effort to use genetic data to more effectively pinpoint which medications and treatments are best for individual patients. Julie A. Johnson, Pharm.D...

  • Consumers Have Concerns About Home Genetic Tests
    One-half of people using direct-to-consumer (DTC) personal genetic risk tests express concerns about testing-yet more than 80 percent want to know their risk even for non-preventable genetic diseases, according to a study in the September Genetics in Medicine, the official peer-reviewed journal of The American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG)...

  • Explaining An Important Genetic Cardiovascular Risk Factor
    New findings reported in the September issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, appear to explain why people who carry specific and common versions of a single gene are more likely to have high cholesterol and to suffer a heart attack. Studies in mice show that the gene, known as sortilin (SORT1), controls the release of LDL (a.k.a...

  • To Reach, Perchance To Kill The Cancer: A Soliloquy From Epeius Nanotechnologies Opposes That 'Sea Of Troubles'
    Epeius Biotechnologies Corporation, a leader in the emerging field of targeted genetic medicine, reports the publication of a landmark paper in clinical oncology. Following up on its advanced U.S...

  • St. Jude Researcher Receives Grant To Focus On Cancer Pharmacogenomics In Children
    With its new expansion of the Pharmacogenomics Research Network (PGRN), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded St. Jude Children's Research Hospital a prestigious grant to focus on anticancer agent research in children. The five-year, $8.6 million grant is titled "PAAR4Kids Pharmacogenomics of Anticancer Agents Research in Children." "We've been part of the PGRN for 10 years...

  • Sequencing Of First Irish Genome
    The first entire genome of an Irish individual has been sequenced. The sequence is reported in BioMed Central's open access journal, Genome Biology and provides insight into the evolutionary history of this distinct lineage...

  • Scientists Create New Process To 'Program' Cancer Cell Death
    Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have engineered a fundamentally new approach to killing cancer cells...

  • Universal Screening Of Newborns For Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Recommended
    Today, The Endocrine Society released a new clinical practice guideline on the diagnosis and treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). The guideline features a series of evidence-based clinical recommendations developed by an expert task force...

  • Epitwin: Largest Ever Epigenetics Project Launched
    One of the most ambitious large-scale projects in Human Genetics has been launched: Epitwin will capture the subtle epigenetic signatures that mark the differences between 5,000 twins on a scale and depth never before attempted, providing key therapeutic targets for the development of drug treatments...


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