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Researchers find new genetic target for blood cancer treatment
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Cambridge [England], April 30 (ANI): Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute found that a specific genetic mutation, which is linked with poor prognosis in blood cancer, is involved in the development of the disease when combined with other mutations in mice and human cell lines.
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Researchers find clues to sex differences in autism
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 17 (ANI): While it is unclear why autism occurs much more frequently in boys than in girls. In a new Yale-led study, researchers find that autism may develop in different regions of the brain in girls than boys and that girls with autism have a larger number of genetic
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COVID attacks the poorest, disadvantaged the hardest: Rahul Gandhi
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 10 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi On Saturday expressed deep concerns over the second wave of COVID-19 in the country and urged the government to look at new mutations, which are the source of the second wave. He also reiterated his demand for basic income suppo
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COVID samples from 8 Maharashtra districts sent for testing of new mutatio
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], February 25 (ANI): As cases of COVID-19 surge in Maharashtra, samples from about eight districts have been sent to laboratories across the country, including the National Institute of Virology and National Center for Disease Control, to find out if any new variant
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Philippines logs 1,901 new COVID-19 cases, two virus mutations detected
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Manila [The Philippines], February 19 (ANI/Xinhua): The Department of Health (DOH) of the Philippines reported on Friday 1,901 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the Southeast Asian country's total tally to 557,058.
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New personalised platform to help advance medicine research for cancer
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Cleveland (Ohio) [US], February 13 (ANI): The findings of a recent study feature a new personalised platform developed by the Cleveland Clinic researchers. This personalised platform will help in accelerating genome-informed drug therapies for cancer mutations and advanced research on genomi
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Angela Merkel defends lockdown extension, says 'Mutations may destroy any
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Berlin [Germany], February 12 (ANI): German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday defended the extension of the nationwide lockdown until March 7 in Bundestag and called on Germans to be "extremely cautious" and warned of the "dangers" of COVID-19 variants, reported DW News Agency.
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Scientists develop platform to advance medicine research for cancer
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Cleveland (Ohio) [US], February 9 (ANI): A new study published in Genome Biology features a new personalised platform developed by the Cleveland Clinic researchers that will help to accelerate advanced research on genomic medicine and genome-informed drug therapies for cancer mutations.
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Coronavirus can be controlled, WHO Chief says, pointing to decrease in num
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 2 (ANI/Sputnik): The global decrease in the number of new emerging cases of COVID-19 suggests that the virus can be controlled regardless of its mutations, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
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Panel finds more gene mutations, treatment targets for leukemia
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 1 (ANI): A gene panel that looks for about 10 times the number of cancer-causing genes as panels currently used to diagnose and fine tune treatment for a variety of cancers is effective at identifying problematic genes in the most common leukemia, investigators repo
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Research shows Regeneron's COVID-19 antibody cocktail effective against co
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [US], January 28 (ANI): The tests conducted on two different variants of the coronavirus show that one of the two monoclonal antibodies in Regeneron's cocktail therapy can neutralize both, despite the mutations, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Gene editing techniques helpful in retinal degeneration treatment
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [US], January 23 (ANI): A new study has found that gene-editing techniques like CRISPR-Cas hold the power to rectify inherited retinal degenerative mutations, which are the primary cause of blindness.
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