Month: October 2015

Predisposing gene associated with Cowden syndrome.Cleveland Clinic researchers have discovered a new gene associated with Cowden syndrome, an inherited condition that carries high risks of…

Sharing genomic information among researchers is critical to the advance of biomedical research.

To gain a clearer picture of health and disease, scientists have now provided an independent reference for all human variation by looking through the evolutionary lens of our nearest relatives.

Bottom Line: Resistance to CD19 CAR T-cell therapy, a type of immunotherapy that yields long-lasting remissions in many patients with B-cell leukemia, can be caused by CD19 splicing alterations…

These new findings may be able to help clinicians tailor treatments and could provide a new strategy for using targeted therapies in this diseaseThe gene SPOP is mutated in up to 15 percent of all…

Scientists have pinpointed the mechanism by which a key gene contributes to the development of a painful bone disease. Researchers have found that a fault in the gene can trigger the bone defects that affect […]

Sharing genomic information among researchers is critical to the advance of biomedical research. Yet genomic data contains identifiable information and, in the wrong hands, poses a risk to individual privacy. If someone had access to […]