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Researchers identify source of a brain cancer’s deadly transformation

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Researchers identify source of a brain cancer’s deadly transformation By Corie Lok November 21, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Researchers identify source of a brain cancer’s deadly transformation Slow-growing glioma tumors become more aggressive when their cells shift identities and acquire new genetic mutations.

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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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New patient-partnered research project will study heart disease and diabetes risk in South Asian populations

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Researchers still do not fully understand why, in part because people of South Asian descent are largely underrepresented in genomic and cardiometabolic research. Researchers still do not fully understand why, in part because people of South Asian descent are largely underrepresented in genomic and cardiometabolic research.

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#ScienceSaturday: April 6, 2024

KIF1A

Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. When a mutation causes a deletion or duplication of larger areas of DNA, we call it Copy Number Variation. She graduated from UC San Diego with a B.S.

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A close research partnership with African scientists helps solve the mystery of malaria-like illnesses

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Little is known about what pathogens cause these infections, and so these “non-malarial febrile illnesses” (NMFI) often fly under the radar of infectious disease surveillance programs because researchers don’t know which pathogens to look for. Tags: Infectious Disease DNA sequencing RNA sequencing Nature Communications.

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

Broad Institute

The family was instrumental in the research that led to the discovery and her diagnosis. 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.

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