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Researchers identify source of a brain cancer’s deadly transformation

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Their results underscore the importance of early detection and treatment, such as with vorasidenib , which targets IDH and was recently approved by the FDA for low-grade gliomas. In IDH-driven gliomas, the mutated IDH enzyme fosters the addition of methyl groups to the cells’ DNA.

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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.

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Study finds youth-onset diabetes is a genetically distinct form of the disorder

Broad Institute

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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How chromosome imbalances can drive cancer

Broad Institute

Such large-scale changes in DNA have been difficult to study. The findings, published today in Nature , could lead to new ways of guiding cancer treatment or developing targeted drugs. But for decades, researchers have debated whether aneuploidy promotes the growth of cancers, or is simply a side effect of cancer cells’ fast growth.

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Revolutionary nanoparticles enable gene-editing in lungs

Drug Target Review

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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AI Tool CHIEF Paints a Landscape of a Cancer, Refining Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis

PLOS: DNA Science

Researchers from Harvard Medical School describe a new ChatGPT-like model that can guide clinical decision-making to diagnose, treat, and predict survival for several types of cancer. These findings can then be used to predict response to treatments as well as survival time. Their report appears in Nature.

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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

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. Further, the Ulitsky lab showed that the excess CHD2 came from the DNA strand that lacked CHASERR.

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