Gut Microbe Dampens Parkinson’s Treatment
For some time, gut microbes have been thought to metabolize and lessen the efficacy of levodopa, the primary drug treatment for Parkinson’s disease, but...
CRISPR Pioneers Partner with GSK to Launch Laboratory for Genomics Research
Gene-editing pioneers based at the University of California (UC) are partnering with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to establish a new laboratory that will explore how gene...
CRISPR-Cas9 Used to Create Primate Model of Autism
Researchers headed by teams at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have used CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to engineer macaque...
Clinical NGS IDs Pathogens in Brain and Spinal Fluid Missed by Other Tests
Doctors were able to give critically ill patients with mysterious neurological symptoms life-saving treatment thanks to a new clinical application of next-generation sequencing (NGS)....
Foundation Medicine CEO Cindy Perettie’s Top ASCO 2019 Takeaways
By Cindy Perettie, CEO, Foundation Medicine
The way ASCO started for me this year set the scene for what was an inspiring and fascinating weekend....
![NGS technology has enabled researchers to epidemiologically analyze DNA sequences by quickly deciphering mass quantities of genetic information in a short amount of time. [Heart illustration: iStock/SvetaP DNA double helix: iStock/Kagenmi]](https://www.clinicalomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/304-218x150.jpeg "Polygenic Risk Scores Predict Heart Disease Across Diverse Populations")
Polygenic Risk Scores Predict Heart Disease Across Diverse Populations
A new study confirms that the whole-genome approach for predicting heart disease in people who have never had a heart attack works and can...
Genetic Variation Influences Effectiveness of Vaccines
A genome-wide association study GWAS, headed by a team at the University of Oxford, U.K., and involving thousands of children in the U.K. and...
Disrupted Microbiome Aids Spread of Breast Cancer
Research from the University of Virginia Cancer Center have found that disrupting the microbiome of mice caused hormone receptor-positive breast cancer to become more...
AMP Adds Conditions to Support of Consumer Genomic Tests
The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) said today it has expanded its set of conditions it wants to see met before it will support...
Mapped Pneumonia Genome Will Improve Vaccine Design
The most common bacterial cause of pneumonia around the world, Streptococcus pneumoniae,has been mapped by an international collaboration led by scientists from the Wellcome...
