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AI tool may help doctors select best drugs for COVID patients

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It could also be made more powerful by incorporating personal genetic information and gene expression profiles in tissues such as the lungs, they suggest. The post AI tool may help doctors select best drugs for COVID patients appeared first on.

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Molecular changes in white blood cells can help diagnose ‘the bends’ earlier in divers

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First study to show gene expression changes in divers with ‘the bends’ reveals key role of genes for inflammation and immunity For over a century, researchers have known about “the bends”, a serious condition affecting scuba divers. Doctors do not yet have a definitive test […].

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Gene editing: beyond the hype

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‘Cutting edge’ is, for once, a truly apt description when it comes to gene editing – both because the field is pushing medicine into areas we might never have dreamed possible, and because these technologies involve literally cutting DNA at a specific point in the genome. The exact mechanism depends on the disease in question.

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Women in Science Who Have Paved the Way Forward in Genetics

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She was actually able to use the research for her doctoral thesis, graduating with a doctorate from Cambridge in 1945. Daly’s histone research proved to be pioneering, being fundamental to our understanding of DNA packaging, gene expression and epigenetics, among other areas in genetic research.

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My Hemochromatosis cb vsl | Blue Heron Health News

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You possibly know that to have HCT you need an ‘HCT gene’ from your mom and another from your dad. But, as your doctor will have explained, lots of people have both these genes. It asks the question, ‘What is it that makes the ‘HCT gene’ devastate some lives – yet be completely harmless to others?’. They’d beaten HCT.