A much higher percentage of men with an unpleasant smell were found to have gonorrhea compared to other men, researchers from the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia revealed in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. The authors explained that adult males with gonorrhea had a putrid smell, as far as many adult females [...]
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Signal Genetics announced today, at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting, that the Company is launching its next generation Multiple Myeloma product, MyPRS Plus, effective January 1, 2012.
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After a four-week course of the vasodilator hormone relaxin, kidney function and blood flow immediately improved in lab rats genetically altered to model polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a life-threatening genetic disorder, according to research presented on Dec. 6 at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting in Denver.
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The use of genetic tests to predict a patient’s response to drugs is increasingly important in the development of personalized medicine. But genetic tests often only look for the most common gene variants…
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(MedPage Today) — Genetic sequencing of clinical tumor samples can map the patient-specific mutational “landscape” to allow new types of biomarker-driven treatment trials, results of a pilot study suggested.
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Viral Genetics reports that a patent under which it is exclusively licensed will be granted for using a compound known as DCA to treat cancer.
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Being impulsive can lead us to say things we regret, buy things we really don’t need, engage in behaviors that are risky and even develop troublesome addictions. But are different kinds of hastiness and rashness embedded in our DNA? A new study suggests the answer is yes - especially if you’re a man…
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An international team of researchers led by clinicians at Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered a genetic Achilles’ heel in an aggressive type of prostate cancer — a vulnerability they say can be attacked by a targeted drug that is already in clinical trials to treat other types of cancers.
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Among patients with stable cardiovascular disease who have a genetic variation that diminishes the response to the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel, tripling the standard daily dosage of this medication resulted in improved platelet reactivity, according to a study appearing in JAMA.
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Researchers at Ohio State University Medical Center and Nationwide Children’s Hospital have developed a viral vector designed to deliver a gene into the eyes of people born with an inherited, progressive form of blindness that affects mainly males…
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