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Matchmaker Exchange platform launched for uncovering rare disease genes

In a special issue of Human Mutation, a team including investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital has announced the launch of the Matchmaker Exchange - a way for the rare disease community to share information and find new connections. Matchmaker Exchange connects databases of genetic information and symptoms that physicians and investigators can "match" with a patient's rare disease.

25 Sep 2015

Researchers to use big data to improve classification of mood disorders

Mood disorders like depression are common among U.S. adults. Still, such disorders remain challenging for clinicians to diagnose and treat effectively.

24 Sep 2015

Research suggests potential drug targets to stop cancer spread

It only takes seconds: one cancerous cell breaks off from a tumor, slips into the bloodstream and quickly lodges elsewhere in the body. These colonizers may bloom into deadly metastatic cancer right away or lie dormant for years, only to trigger a recurrence decades after the primary tumor is removed.

24 Sep 2015

Mayo Clinic's Gianrico Farrugia highlights five areas that may impact patient care

How is individualized medicine working? Let us count the ways. That's just what Mayo Clinic Vice President Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., did this morning in his opening keynote at the 4th annual Individualizing Medicine Conference. The core of his talk highlighted five areas in which the knowledge and know-how from the human genome will be most impactful in patient care, not just at Mayo Clinic, but anywhere in the nation and globally.

23 Sep 2015

NYSCF, Q-State partner to advance precision medicine for nervous system disorders

The New York Stem Cell Foundation and Q-State Biosciences are partnering in a joint research collaboration to advance patient care for nervous system disorders through precision medicine. Through this collaboration, both organizations will further advance their respective technologies, while exploring how their proprietary research platforms might provide synergies in the process of developing novel therapeutics and companion diagnostics.

21 Sep 2015

Thomas Jefferson University provides routine genomic fingerprinting to cancer patients

Cancer medicine is moving towards understanding what drives each particular patient's cancer. But not every patient has had access to this level of individualized care.

18 Sep 2015

Specific biomarker predicts which HER2-negative breast cancer patients respond to targeted therapy

A multicenter team led by Case Western Reserve has demonstrated that brief exposure to a targeted therapy can tell doctors which HER2-negative patients will respond — and which should switch to another kind of treatment.

18 Sep 2015

WuXi NextCODE, CHFU partner to advance precision medicine in China

WuXi NextCODE, a precision medicine company using the genome to improve health worldwide, and the Children's Hospital of Fudan University, based in Shanghai and serving 2.3 million patients nationwide per year, today announced the signing of a landmark agreement for advancing precision medicine in China.

16 Sep 2015

Articles sponsored by NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory provide new standpoint on clinical research

A special series of articles addressing the ethical and regulatory challenges to pragmatic clinical trials appears this week on the website of the journal Clinical Trials.

16 Sep 2015

UCSF receives $5 million grant to create online database on all types of cancer

UC San Francisco has received a National Cancer Institute grant of $5 million over the next five years to lead a massive effort to integrate the data from all experimental models across all types of cancer.

16 Sep 2015

Qualitative RPCI study evaluates attitudes toward smoking cessation in Northern Appalachia

Significant differences in attitudes toward smoking cessation are reported between two generations of smokers in Northern Appalachia in new research from Roswell Park Cancer Institute.

14 Sep 2015

Genetics and race influence patients' response to anticancer drug treatments

A new study published in Pharmacogenomics suggests that a person's response to anticancer drug treatments is strongly related to their genetic ancestry. Pharmacogenomics is published by Future Science Group.

14 Sep 2015

Two St. Louis institutions collaborate to create Center for Clinical Pharmacology

St. Louis College of Pharmacy and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are joining forces to find better, safer and more effective ways to use prescription medications to improve health. Researchers from the two institutions are collaborating to create the Center for Clinical Pharmacology.

14 Sep 2015

New study reveals that social factors may impact critical aspects of health in AML patients

A new study reveals that insurance status, marital status, and county-level income may affect the chances of survival in young patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings indicate that efforts are needed to address the social factors that impact critical aspects of health in these patients.

14 Sep 2015

BerGenBio honored with Nordic Stars Award for innovation in Nordic life science community

BerGenBio AS ("BerGenBio" or the "Company"), an oncology biopharmaceutical company, today announces that it has been awarded one of this year's Nordic Stars Awards at the Nordic Life Science Days 2015 conference held in Stockholm, Sweden on 9-10 September, 2015.

11 Sep 2015

New DNA analysis may guide personalized management of hepatocellular carcinoma

Detection of small fragments of tumor DNA, known as circulating tumor DNA, in a patient's pre-surgery serum samples predicts early recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma and may guide treatment, according to a study published in Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the basic and translational science journal of the American Gastroenterological Association.

10 Sep 2015

UCSF researchers lead $10 million research project on pediatric cancer

Researchers at UC San Francisco are leading a five-year, $10 million research project dedicated to pediatric cancer, funded by the first grant of its kind to focus on a molecular pathway that underlies many cancers rather than on a cancer in a particular organ or tissue in the body.

9 Sep 2015

Incorporating clinical genomic sequencing data into clinical management improves pediatric cancer treatment

In a study that included children and young adults with relapsed or refractory cancer, incorporation of integrative clinical genomic sequencing data into clinical management was feasible, revealed potentially actionable findings in nearly half of the patients, and was associated with change in treatment and family genetics counseling for a small proportion of patients, according to a study in the September 1 issue of JAMA.

2 Sep 2015

U-M study suggests potential treatment options for children with aggressive, advanced cancer

For children with rare, aggressive and advanced cancer, precision medicine may help doctors determine their best treatment options, a new study finds.

2 Sep 2015

Genetic test that predicts recurrence of breast cancer may impact use of chemotherapy

A genetic test that helps predict whether some women's breast cancer will recur might influence how chemotherapy is used, according to a study from Duke Medicine.

28 Aug 2015

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Matchmaker Exchange platform launched for uncovering rare disease genes

Researchers to use big data to improve classification of mood disorders

Research suggests potential drug targets to stop cancer spread

Mayo Clinic's Gianrico Farrugia highlights five areas that may impact patient care

NYSCF, Q-State partner to advance precision medicine for nervous system disorders

Thomas Jefferson University provides routine genomic fingerprinting to cancer patients

Specific biomarker predicts which HER2-negative breast cancer patients respond to targeted therapy

WuXi NextCODE, CHFU partner to advance precision medicine in China

Articles sponsored by NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory provide new standpoint on clinical research

UCSF receives $5 million grant to create online database on all types of cancer

Qualitative RPCI study evaluates attitudes toward smoking cessation in Northern Appalachia

Genetics and race influence patients' response to anticancer drug treatments

Two St. Louis institutions collaborate to create Center for Clinical Pharmacology

New study reveals that social factors may impact critical aspects of health in AML patients

BerGenBio honored with Nordic Stars Award for innovation in Nordic life science community

New DNA analysis may guide personalized management of hepatocellular carcinoma

UCSF researchers lead $10 million research project on pediatric cancer

Incorporating clinical genomic sequencing data into clinical management improves pediatric cancer treatment

U-M study suggests potential treatment options for children with aggressive, advanced cancer

Genetic test that predicts recurrence of breast cancer may impact use of chemotherapy

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