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Cancer-Causing Culprits Will Be Caught By Their DNA Fingerprints

Drug Discovery Today

Causes of cancer are being catalogued by a huge international study revealing the genetic fingerprints of DNA-damaging processes that drive cancer development.

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Researchers identify source of a brain cancer’s deadly transformation

Broad Institute

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. In IDH-driven gliomas, the mutated IDH enzyme fosters the addition of methyl groups to the cells’ DNA.

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Shervin Tabrizi

Broad Institute

His work focuses on developing novel technologies to improve the performance of liquid biopsies for cancer detection, using approaches in protein engineering to create agents that can improve the recovery of cell-free DNA from the body. Tabrizi earned his M.D.

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#ScienceSaturday: April 6, 2024

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When a mutation causes a deletion or duplication of larger areas of DNA, we call it Copy Number Variation. DNA deletion and duplication may impact large sections of genes, or multiple neighboring genes. The altered expression of so many genes has profound consequences for the nervous system. She graduated from UC San Diego with a B.S.

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Gerstner Center for Cancer Diagnostics receives additional commitment from Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., to advance technologies that could transform cancer care

Broad Institute

Liquid biopsies enable clinicians to find and analyze tumor DNA in a patient’s blood sample to detect cancer early, monitor cancer recurrence, assess the patient’s response to treatment, and measure other clinically important features in real time, without invasive procedures. "We

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Eclectic Genomics: Cat Flu, Dolphin Adaptation to Climate Change, Predicting Cancer, and Diagnosing Rare Disease

PLOS: DNA Science

Genomics applies to all species, revealing evolution in action, because we all use the same genetic code – that is, the correspondence between DNA sequences and the amino acid sequences of proteins. Cats and Bird Flu Comparing DNA sequences is a little like linguistic research that connects languages.

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To help his daughter living with an ultra-rare disorder, this dad brought together a squad of genetic detectives

Broad Institute

The DNA change underlying Emma’s disorder is now known, thanks to years of work by an international team of scientists and physicians at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Northwestern University, University of Nantes, the Weizmann Institute of Science, and the Baylor College of Medicine.

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