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Understanding How Mutations Affect Diseases

byInstitute of Science and Technology Austria

New model reveals how genes interact in polygenic diseases, improving understanding of diabetes and schizophrenia

Updated | 4 min read

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Microbiome: Drug Discovery Within the Patient

byHelmholtz Centre for Infection Research

| 4 min read

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Gene Therapy Helps Patients with a Rare Pediatric Brain Disease

byMass General Brigham

| 4 min read

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Mapping the ‘Knots’ in the Human Genome

byGarvan Institute of Medical Research

New research on DNA’s hidden structures may open up new treatments

| 2 min read

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‘Faster, Safer, and More Efficient’ Gene Editing

byJohn A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawi’i Manoa

This new advancement could open the door to treatments for hundreds of conditions

| 2 min read

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New Finding Sheds Light on Gene Activity Encoding

byWashington State University

This “spatial grammar” could shape our understanding of gene regulation and expression

| 2 min read

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Rare Disease's DNA-Damaging Mutation Sheds Light on Other Diseases

byPenn Medicine

Knowing the TREX1 gene quickens DNA damage has implications for many diseases

| 3 min read

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Researchers Find Links between Lupus and Genetic Mutations

byRobert SandersandUniversity of California - Berkeley

This discovery may lead to personalized treatments

| 5+ min read

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New Multiplexing Gene-Editing System Addresses Complex Diseases

byMichelle FranklinandUniversity of California - San Diego

MOBEs are a new tool in disease modeling that install multiple point mutations at once

| 3 min read

AI Found to Triage ER Patients as Effectively as Physicians

byUniversity of California - San Francisco

Researchers at UCSF used thousands of ER records to evaluate an AI model’s ability to extract symptoms from notes and determine how immediately they needed treatment

| 3 min read

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