Genetic Research
News on genome-wide association studies, genotyping, metagenomics, basic research in genetics, genomics, and molecular diagnostics.
Pediatric Medulloblastoma Subgroups May Benefit from Lower-Dose Radiation Therapy
The study found certain patients did not benefit from lower doses of radiation therapy, suggesting the need for molecular selection.
Heligenics, Jackson Lab Partner to Study Breast Cancer Gene Variants
Heligenics will apply its GigaAssay, a massively parallelized platform for assaying molecular functions of single cells in culture, to ERBB2 variants.
The firm continues to pursue new applications for its multiomics machine learning technology, with recent data exploring immunotherapy response prediction.
Multiple Myeloma Therapy Targets, Resistance Pathways Identified With Single-Cell Sequencing
The researchers found new molecular pathways of resistance, including hypoxia tolerance, protein folding, and mitochondria respiration.
Small Cell Lung Cancer Study Uncovers Disease-Associated Germline Mutations
The study, which showed that the disease may not only result from tobacco exposure as previously thought, could lay the groundwork for targeted therapies.