In a study published in Current Biology on August 14, Prof. Miao Wei's team at the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof. Zhang Jianzhi's team at the University ...

Phase 1b/2 KEYNOTE-365 cohort I: Pembrolizumab (pembro) plus carboplatin and etoposide chemotherapy (chemo) or chemo alone for metastatic neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC). This is an ASCO Meeting ...

Accurate genomic profiling is essential for clinical decision-making and optimizing treatment recommendations. Tumor-only sequencing has been adopted by many laboratories to guide precision oncology ...

Schizophrenia is thought to affect 1 in 300 people, or about 0.32 percent of the global population, and treatment options are limited because of a poor understanding of the mechanisms underlying the ...

Germ cell tumors (GCTs) are a heterogeneous group of neoplasms that predominantly affect adolescents and young adults. Notably, geographical disparities in GCT incidence exist, with higher rates ...

A Stanford Medicine study of thousands of breast cancers has found that inherited gene sequences may be powerful predictors of the breast cancer type that might develop decades later, and how deadly ...

Discussion of the potential of using pluripotent stem cells for tissue transplantation has raised issues about the frequency and types of spontaneous mutation in these cells. In the March 19 ...

Genetic disorders can occur due to mutations in one gene (monogenic), multiple genes (multifactorial inheritance), and mutation in one or more chromosomes. Point mutations are where one nucleotide in ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body’s typically efficient DNA repair machinery and potentially affecting our health ...

Two months later, Gould began to experience a strange cascade of symptoms. His ankles swelled to the width of his calves. The right side of his face became so bloated that he could not open his eye.