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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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OCTOBER 23, 2023

By Makenzie Kohler October 23, 2023 People of South Asian ancestry around the world have more than double the risk of developing cardiometabolic diseases like diabetes, heart attack, and stroke compared to other populations.

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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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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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OCTOBER 23, 2024

Scientist II Michael Trembley is a scientist II at the Precision Cardiology Laboratory (PCL) of the Broad Institute and Bayer, where his research is focused on discovering and validating novel therapeutic targets for heart disease.

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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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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

They also saw an increase in abundance of several immune cell subsets, as well as an increase in abundances of certain cellular groupings composed of specific cytotoxic T cells, conventional dendritic cells (cDCs), and inflammatory fibroblasts that were found together in the hearts of patients with active disease.

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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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AUGUST 8, 2024

at Harvard Medical School, where he conducted research with Pardis Sabeti on evolution of human genetic resistance to infectious disease. Tabrizi earned his M.D.

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PLOS: DNA Science

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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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Bernstein is also chair of the Department of Cancer Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a professor in cell biology and pathology at Harvard Medical School, and holds the Richard and Nancy Lubin Family Chair. Later in the disease, other genetic drivers that are not targeted by the drug take over.

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She helps lead a team that processes a variety of sample types to support research at the institute focused on a wide range of diseases. She previously served as a flow cytometry specialist at Harvard University and as a research technician at Harvard Medical School. Rogers earned a B.S.

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Broad Institute

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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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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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Researchers have typically analyzed these cells as a mixed-together group, but this approach can miss rare cell types, and makes it difficult to draw conclusions about how cells interact to drive the disease. They also applied four spatial transcriptomics methods, including Slide-Seq and MERFISH, to a subset of the biopsies.

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JULY 25, 2024

OurHealth’s medical director, Dr.

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The Pharma Data

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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Broad Institute

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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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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Broad Institute

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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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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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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Nvidia Developer: Drug Discovery

JULY 14, 2022

Drug discovery startup Insilico Medicine—alongside researchers from Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Mayo Clinic, and. ALS is a debilitating disease. Today, patients typically face an average life expectancy of between two and five years after symptom onset. This is only the beginning.”

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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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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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JUNE 2, 2023

Zouboulis, President of the European Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation, Director of the Departments of Dermatology, Venereology, Allergology and Immunology, Städtisches Klinikum Dessau, and Founding Professor of Dermatology and Venereology at the Brandenburg Medical School, Germany.

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JULY 26, 2022

By Stephanie Dutchen, Harvard Medical School Office of Communications and External Relations July 26, 2022 Credit: Susanna Hamilton, Broad Communications From immunity to metabolism to mental health, it seems like the gut microbiome has been linked to every aspect of human health and disease. Online July 27, 2022.

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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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JUNE 14, 2023

She is also director of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and the Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Previously, she was the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean and Professor of Medicine of Weill Cornell Medicine and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University. Glimcher, M.D.,

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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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Drug Target Review

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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Broad Institute

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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MARCH 27, 2024

As if that isn’t enough, she is also working toward her PhD, with research focusing on the impact of supramental awareness on disease prevention, healing, and health. Not really, although I contemplated medical school for a while.

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MAY 16, 2024

The body’s ability to maintain homeostasis in chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases is a defining feature of good health, and a goal is largely neglected by modern medicine. This suggests that the field of drug discovery is primed for a paradigm shift in the fundamental strategy of how diseases are treated.

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