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AUGUST 28, 2024

What are the main challenges currently faced in the treatment of chronic liver diseases, and how does Resolution Therapeutics aim to address these challenges? Once a patient develops advanced cirrhosis/end-stage liver disease there are no specific therapies to significantly avoid major decompensations and death in the next few years.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

They found significant associations between the thinning of different retinal layers and increased risk of developing ocular, cardiac, pulmonary, metabolic, and neuropsychiatric diseases and identified genes that are associated with retinal layer thickness. Their findings are published in Science Translational Medicine. “We

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AUGUST 16, 2020

Eva Larkai, a fourth-year medical student, led the student group demanding change. A major British medical school is leading the drive to eliminate what it calls “inherent racism” in the way doctors are trained in the UK. And he says the problem is one that all UK medical schools and the wider NHS share.

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Drug Target Review

JULY 13, 2023

In this article, we will delve into the world of condensate biology and explore the groundbreaking research projects undertaken to discover the potential they hold for diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS ) and colorectal cancer. Klein notes the importance of Dewpoint’s disease-agnostic approach.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

However, researchers lack efficient ways to explore how these genetic variants are molecularly connected to cardiovascular disease, limiting efforts to develop therapeutics. The team found that a key biological mechanism involved in a rare vascular disease may influence CAD risk.

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AUGUST 7, 2024

At the Broad, he directs the Cancer Genome Computational Analysis Group , and he is a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School and director of bioinformatics at Massachusetts General Hospital. Anna Greka ’s research focuses on fundamental mechanisms of cellular dysfunction in genetic diseases with a focus on membrane proteins.

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JULY 6, 2023

The accuracy of these scores has improved for some diseases and groups of people, but they continue to fall short for those of non-European ancestry, mainly because the genetic datasets used to calculate these scores have largely come from people of European ancestry.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The way that clinicians subdivide diabetes patients now is based on symptoms, but in this study, the frequency of genetic risk factors seems to vary among patients with youth-onset T2D,” said Jason Flannick , Broad associate member and assistant professor at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. “We

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JUNE 18, 2024

The test, developed by a team from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Princeton University, and supported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, uses CRISPR to distinguish between the two main types of seasonal flu, influenza A and B, as well as seasonal flu subtypes H1N1 and H3N2. The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.

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Drug Target Review

APRIL 26, 2023

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass), US, have collaborated to create a novel type of nanoparticle that can deliver messenger RNA that encodes for beneficial proteins to the lungs.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Pediatric cancers exhibit differences at the genetic level compared to the same form of adult disease, which may influence the selected treatment. This New Alternative Model (NAM) provides a platform for High-Content Screening through disease modeling through the transplantation of primary patient tumors into immunocompromised lines.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Cytokines are also targeted by drugs for many diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, COVID-19, and cancer, but until now, scientists haven’t had a comprehensive view of how different immune cells respond to different cytokines because the immune system is so complex. For many immune-mediated diseases, there's no cure or treatment.

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MARCH 8, 2024

“Type 2 diabetes is a disease of elevated blood sugar impacting approximately one in 10 people in the United States that can cause devastating health complications and is usually not cured. Udler and her colleagues assessed genetic findings from more than 1.4 Adapted from an MGH press release. Paper cited: Smith K, Deutsch AJ, McGrail C.,

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JULY 27, 2023

That information led, thanks to vaccine shelved from the first SARS circa 2003, to the rapid development and deployment of mRNA vaccines against the new infectious disease. Harvard Medical School researchers recently described an “AI tool” that “Decodes Brain Cancer’s Genome During Surgery,” in the journal Med.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

By Allessandra DiCorato September 18, 2024 Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health Colorized scanning electron micrograph of Escherichia coli, grown in culture and adhered to a cover slip. Pust is in the lab of Xavier, who is co-director of its Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

25, 2021 — Recommendations are presented for the diagnosis and management of von Willebrand disease (VWD) in two clinical guidelines issued by the American Society of Hematology, International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis, National Hemophilia Foundation, and World Federation of Hemophilia and published online Jan. MONDAY, Jan.

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MAY 30, 2023

By Andrea Tamayo May 30, 2023 Credit: Allison Dougherty, Broad Communications Isabella Teixeira-Soldano studies single cells to better understand disease progression. I told him I was struggling with my classes and that I didn’t think I'd make it to medical school. And if I did, I wouldn’t be happy.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

They knew that discovering the genetic cause of her disorder would help them find other people like her, help get the condition formally recognized as a new disease, and help them better advocate for research into new treatments. This is the first human disease caused by loss of one copy of a lncRNA gene.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

Bhattacharyya wears many coats today, splitting his time between the Broad and the infectious disease ward at MGH, where a diagnostic method he developed at Broad is now being tested to see if it helps patients quickly receive the best antibiotics for their infections.

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KIF1A

APRIL 6, 2024

Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. As our genetic analyses advance, studies like this highlight the value in reassessing established disease populations. She graduated from UC San Diego with a B.S.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

This study is an important example of how understanding core metabolic requirements and functions of key bacteria can lead directly to new therapies that allow us to modify the microbiome for improved health,” said co-senior author Seth Bloom, an infectious diseases instructor at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

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KIF1A

MAY 4, 2024

Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. By talking to groups with these mutations, we may identify other diseases whose patients have KIF1A variants. She graduated from UC San Diego with a B.S.

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MARCH 8, 2024

By Claire Hendershot March 8, 2024 Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health via U.S. First author Zoë Levine is an MD-PhD candidate at Harvard Medical School and graduate student in the lab of Pardis Sabeti at the Broad.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Related groups Liu lab Choudhary lab Fischer lab Researchers studying the role of proteins in health and disease use experimental tools that inactivate proteins, destroy them, or prevent them from being made in cells.

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JUNE 30, 2023

Common genetic variants associated with cardiometabolic disease can produce phenotype changes of such small effect that they can be difficult to characterize. Common genetic variants associated with cardiometabolic disease can produce phenotype changes of such small effect that they can be difficult to characterize.

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JUNE 21, 2023

With further development, the findings could inform a potential treatment that lowers oxygen levels in certain tissues in humans to reverse advanced disease. If we accept that disease stems from the interaction of genes and environment, then why not manipulate the environment?” The study appeared recently in Human Molecular Genetics.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

GoPhAST-R’s test drive In the GoPhAST-R method, researchers expose bacterial samples to various antibiotics and then use an RNA detection platform to look for distinct patterns of change in messenger RNA expression, which reflect differences in the activity of bacterial genes.

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Drug Target Review

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Getting into medical school was very competitive with thousands of candidates vying for a handful of positions, but I was fortunate enough to succeed. My inclination toward biological sciences led me to medical school to pursue a future in STEM. I opted for medicine due to my love for biological sciences.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

New Tau Protein is Abnormal in Very Early Alzheimer’s Disease. Investigators with the University of Gothenburg identified new forms of tau protein that become abnormal in the very early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, even before the development of cognitive problems. Kidney Disease Leading Risk Factor for COVID-related Hospitalization.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

A healthy immune system defends the body against disease and other conditions. Autoimmune disease impacts different parts of the body, weakening functionality. Researchers are aware of more than 80 diseases that occur when the immune system attacks the body’s own organs, tissues and cells. It may be life-threatening.

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DECEMBER 5, 2020

5, 2020 — A pair of new gene therapies promise a potentially lasting cure for sickle cell disease by subtly altering the genetic information in patients’ bone marrow cells, researchers report. She’s a pediatric hematology-oncology specialist at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

During my academic career, I had the opportunity to examine the underlying causes of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s disease and develop novel animal models to investigate potential disease-modifying therapeutics. For instance, we know ageing is a primary risk factor for many neurodegenerative diseases.

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JULY 25, 2024

OurHealth’s medical director, Dr.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The initial focus of the Gerstner Center is to develop an ultrasensitive liquid biopsy test to detect minimal residual disease (MRD) — the presence of tumor cells in the body after treatment. The approach has potential uses beyond cancer diagnostics, and indeed, in other diseases beyond cancer.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Lloyd Bod is an associate member of Broad, a principal investigator in the Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Learn more about the Broad Discovery Series.

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JUNE 2, 2022

Novartis today announced a partnership with the American Society of Hematology (ASH) to provide six additional African nations with technology that is already being used in Ghana to document and share the diagnosis of babies with sickle cell disease. About Sickle Cell Disease.

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APRIL 25, 2024

He started to imagine how the deadly and contagious disease, if confirmed, might spread to half the city’s population. Eight of the 20 patients died, but the spread of the disease in Nigeria stopped there. Ozonoff is also an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a scientist at Boston Children’s Hospital.

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